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Honore de Balzac
One of the earliest novels in Balzac’s great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath of the French…
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Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Macmillan Publication date: 1901 Subjects: Biography
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WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in…
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
Paris, novembre 1809. Un bal est donne chez le comte de Gondreville. L'arrogance et la frenesie du paraitre sont partout lorsque penetre dans cette salle une inconnue en robe bleu…
He has a noble soul! He perceived from the first days of his married life that he would never be his wife’s master so he threw himself into a mechanical…
Cesar Birotteau est un parfumeur parisien de talent. Capable d'inventer de nouvelles lotions, il rencontre rapidement le succes et la fortune qui l'accompagne. Ses reves d'integrer la haute societe prennent…
La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir de Ferragus de Balzac grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee. La redaction, claire et…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
He flung the reins to a servant who followed on horseback and alighted to take in his arms a young girl whose dainty beauty had already attracted the eyes of…
Raise those great black eyes of yours fixed on my opening sentence and keep this excitement for the letter which shall tell you of my first love.
Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comdie Humaine, which presented…
There are no doubt many young girls in the world as pure as Veronique but none purer or more modest?
qCatherine de? Medici on the contrary saved the crown of France; she maintained the royal authority in the midst of circumstances under which more than one great prince would have…
Monsieur de Manerville the father was a worthy Norman gentleman well known to the Marechael de Richelieu who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the…
He had moreover the great merit of not repeating his personal bons mots and of never speaking of his love-affairs though his smiles and his airs and graces were delightfully…
Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its…
That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again…
In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved…
Includes the Study of a Woman Madame Firmiani Pierre Grassou the Atheist’s Mass the Elixir of Life the Purse the Message and Paz.
Short excerpt: You will ruin me.The words were said in a tone of innocence which a man of any delicacy ought to have obeyed; they went to the heart and…
Also includes Melmouth Reconciled and Unconscious Comedians.
The Histoire des Treize consists-or rather is built up-of three stories: Ferragus or the Rue Soly La Duchesse de Langeais or Ne touchez-paz a la hache and La Fille aux…
At the dawn of an October day in 1827 a young fellow about sixteen years of age whose clothing proclaimed what modern phraseology so insolently calls a proletary was standing…
The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton’s words, a…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Venez decouvrir le roman de Balzac grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux enseignants. Cet…
Die dreissig tolldreisten Geschichten genannt Contes Drolatiques, ubertragen von Benno Ruttenauer, im Original 1917 erschienen
In one of the most unique works written by Balzac, He portrays that redemption from a life of sin and crime is possible with sincere efforts. The protagonist combines health…
La campagne d'Egypte de Napoleon. Un soldat egare dans le desert trouve refuge dans une grotte et reussit a apprivoiser une panthere dont il tombe en quelque sorte amoureux. Il…
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veroeffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Grossteil vergriffen…