Honore de Balzac

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    187 Books
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    June 1928
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    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 187 titles

  • Droll Stories

    From the great French novelist comes this long-unavailable collection of tales in the tradition of Boccaccio’s Decameron.Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, or Droll Stories, were originally published in three volumes in the 1830s. Set in medieval Europ...

  • Father Goriot // Old Goriot // Pere Goriot

    Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potentia...

  • Eugenie Grandet

    This is a painfully drawn portrayal of private life, but its wider subject-matter also makes it a fictional document of post-revolutionary France.Many people (among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie...

  • Cousin Bette

  • A Harlot High and Low

    Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in...

  • The Chouans, or Bretagne in 1799

    Scenes From Military Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Huma...

  • History of the Thirteen

    Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of '...

  • The Black Sheep

    Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but gloriou...

  • Lost Illusions

    The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but naï...



  • Ursula Mirouet

    This novel is one of the pillars of the Scenes of Provincial Life section of Honore de Balzac's story cycle The Human Comedy. Through a series of tragedies and coincidences, a kind and pious teenager named Ursula has been taken in by an octogenarian ...

  • Selected Short Stories

    One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories - many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comédie Humaine. Compellin...

  • The Wild Ass's Skin

    A young man, in despair over gambling debts, buys a magical animal skin that grants his every wish but hastens its owner's death in the process. Balzac's compelling tale is here presented in an exuberant new translation, with an illuminating ...

  • A Murky Business

    This novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napoleon was making himself first consul and then emperor. It is also an early example of the detective story, in which the sinister, implacable police agent, Corentin, stalks his way towards vengeance on his ...

  • The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

    Cesar Birotteau, a basically honest peasant, stumbles on an invention that turns his business into a flourishing enterprise, but he fails to recognize the plots of swindlers scheming to separate him from his money...

  • Beatrix

    Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well ...

  • Bureaucrats

    The Bureaucrats (Les Employes) stands out in Balzac's immense Human Comedy by concentrating precisely and penetratingly on a distinctive "modern" institution: France's state bureaucracy. Rabourdin, aided by his unscrupulous wife, attempts to reorgani...

  • The Atheist's Mass

    "The Atheist's Mass" is a short story from the "Scenes From Private Life" section of Honore de Balzac's story cycle The Human Comedy. One day, the narrator happens to see one of his acquaintances, a prominent doctor, attending mass. Since he knows th...

  • Lily of the Valley

    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,...

  • Colonel Chabert

    The story of a French military hero of the Napoleonic Wars, long assumed to be dead, tries to recover his fortune and former wife through the help of a famous Parisian lawyer. Colonel Chabert, a Napoleonic War hero supposedly killed in the Battle of ...



  • Gillette or The Unknown Masterpiece

    Fiction. Short Story. Translated from the French by Anthony Rudolph. GILLETTE OR THE UNKNOWN MASTERIECE is one of Balzac's most brilliant and fascinating works, and one of the great short stories in European literature. It has been widely influential...

  • The Unknown Masterpiece

    One of the fathers of Realism was the famed 19th century French writer Honore de Balzac. His works are best known for their shrewd, yet honest, interpretation of real life problems within the social classes of French society. He believed that explain...

  • At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

    This novel is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's sweeping saga The Human Comedy. Renowned artist Theodore de Sommervieux falls head-over-heels in love with the beautiful, refined Augustine Guillaume, and soon the besotte...

  • The Wrong Side of Paris

    The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. ...

  • Sarrasine

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Vicar's Passion

    This early Balzac novel, which has never before been translated into English, was written under the pseudonym of Horace de Saint-Aubain. Balzac wrote several of his early works under pen names, but this work -- with its controversial subjects of i...

  • The Seamy Side Of History

    The Comedy of Human Life (La Comédie Humaine) is the collective title given to a series of linked stories by Balzac, totalling about 100 in all, and loosely divided into groups, such as provincial, Parisian, political, military, and country. Con...

  • Juana, And The Red Inn

    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories...

  • The Message, and Gobseck

    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories...

  • The Centenarian: Or, the Two Beringhelds

    Written for serial publication in 1822 under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin, this Faustian tale by Balzac has never before been available in English. More than a long-lost curiosity by an important writer, The Centenarian is also a seminal work ...



  • Peau de Chagrin

    Balzac's classic philosophical novel about a young man (Raphaël) torn between two women, one whom he loves but who does not reciprocate his affections (Foedora, the "woman without a heart") and one who loves him but for whom initially he has only fr...

  • The Petty Bourgeois

  • Beatrix and the Purse

    Honore 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 Comedie Humaine," which presented a panorama of French life."...

  • The Bankrupt

  • Compendium

  • A Woman Of Thirty

    It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead. It was not yet noon when a l...

  • Cousin Pons // Old Goriot

  • A Passion In The Desert

    During Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, one French soldier becomes separated from his regiment and finds himself wandering lost in the desert. Just when he has given up all hope, he makes an unlikely friend. This highly allegorical short story gives rea...

  • The Vendetta

    A foreigner -- along with his wife and their young daughter -- stands before the Tuileries, waiting for an audience with Napoleon. Only the great leader, he reasons, will understand his wretched plight and the vendetta ...

  • The Member For Arcis

    Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comédie Humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Nap...



  • The Unconscious Mummers

    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 original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Wann-Chlore

    Like Green Integer’s previously published The Vicar’s Passion, this great romantic novel by Honoré de Balzac -- previously unpublished in English -- was written under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin. Wann-Chlore presents the hero Horace L...

  • Seraphita

    The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. The battle for her affection leads Wilf and Minna past earthly knowledge and into the deeper mysteries of life. Set against the ru...

  • La Grande Breteche

    During my stay at Vendome, where Despleins had left me in charge of a rich patient, the sight of this strange dwelling became one of my keenest pleasures. Was it not far better than a ruin? Certain memories of indisputable authenticity attach themsel...

  • A Father's Curse and Other Stories

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  • Treatise on Elegant Living

    Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an import...

  • Tales Of The Napoleonic Era

    Four essential stories from the authentic pen of the age of Revolution, Consulate and Empire

    Honore de Balzac was quite literally a child of the Napoleonic age. Born in 1799 he grew to be one of the most highly regarded French writers of any a...

  • Vautrin and The Resources of Quinola and Other Stories

  • La Rabouilleuse

    This is the tale of the Bridau family as they try to regain their rightful inheritance after a series of unfortunate setbacks. Agathe Rouget is sent to live in Paris with relatives, where she meets and marries a man named Bridau. They raise two sons ...

  • A Tragedy By The Sea And Other Stories



  • The Village Cure

  • Balzac's Shorter Stories

    This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... PREFATORY NOTICE. Hoitoke De Balzac was born a...

  • Hedda Gabler

  • The Duchess of Langeais

    In The Duchesse of Langeais, Honore De Balzac tells us the story of an ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a Napoleonic war hero. The depth of character is astonishing and the writing superb....

  • Pierrette: And the Vicar of Tours

    Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influe...

  • The Purse

    "The Purse" is a short story that makes up part of Honore de Balzac's epic cycle The Human Comedy. Daydreaming while working on a ladder, the painter Hippolyte Schinner accidentally falls and sustains an injury. Two neighbors -- a mother and daughter...

  • La Grenadiere

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  • The Exiles

  • The Message

    I have always longed to tell a simple and true story, which should strike terror into two young lovers, and drive them to take refuge each in the other's heart, as two children cling together at the sight of a snake by a woodside. At the risk of spoi...

  • The Recruit

    On an evening in the month of November, 1793, the principal persons of Carentan were assembled in the salon of Madame de Dey, where they met daily. Several circumstances which would never have attracted attention in a large town, though they greatly ...

  • Facino Cane

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  • Gaudissart II

    " ...]pain, and a universe of joy, must resolve through the boulevards or stray through the streets of Paris; for them encyclopaedias of carnival frippery and a score of illustrated books are brought out every year, to say nothing of caricatures by t...

  • The Physiology of the Employee

    If Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mode" itself, fashion--his Physiology of the Employee examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: bureaucracy, and all of the cogs an...

  • The Middle Classes

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  • The Last Fay

    An alchemist, his family and his valet, Caliban, settle in an isolated village. After their deaths, their young son, Abel, who has read only fairy tales, falls in love with a local girl, Catherine, whom he mistakes for the legendary Pearl Fairy. But ...

  • Father Goriot

    At night the wicket gate is replaced by a solid door. The little garden is no wider than the front of the house; it is shut in between the wall of the street and the partition wall of the neighboring house. A mantle of ivy conceals the bricks and att...

  • In Which It Is Demonstrated That Fortune Is Always Feminine, And Perseverance In Love

    Honoré 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 Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years afte...

  • The Duchesse De Langeais

  • The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories Balzac

  • About Catherine de Medici

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  • About The Monk Amador, And Bertha The Penitent

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  • Adieu

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    The longish short story "Adieu" is an excerpt from Honore de Balzac's sweeping masterpiece The Human Comedy. A ghost story of sorts, this tragic tale recounts the blossoming romance of two lovers whose relationship is torn asunder by the vagaries of ...

  • After-Dinner Stories From Balzac

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  • Albert Savarus

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    Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as Albert Savarus. Written in 1836 and part of a series of novels known as La Comdie Humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French soc...

  • The Alkahest

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  • Analytical Studies

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    Contains the Physiology of Marriage and Petty Troubles of Married Life. From La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy). By the French novelist who is regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of novels and stories, co...

  • Another Study Of Woman

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    "Another Study of Woman" is a narrative hovering between a short story and a novella in terms of length, extracted from Honore de Balzac's multi-volume masterpiece The Human Comedy. At a private dinner party, guests warmed by the flush of fine food a...

  • B Atrix

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  • A Bachelor's Establishment

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  • The Ball at Sceaux

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    One of the earliest pieces Balzac penned for his sweeping story cycle The Human Comedy, this novella is found in the Scenes of Private Life section of the series. Social climber Emilie de Fontaine is a petulant brat who is determined to marry for sta...

  • Brotherhood of Consolation

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    French playwright and novelist Honore de Balzac is at his best when he is describing the chaotic tumult of big city life in nineteenth-century Europe. In The Brotherhood of Consolation, he focuses on a secret society of people bent on bringing some s...

  • The Brothers-In-Arms And Other Stories

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  • Bureaucracy

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    This fascinating novel from French master Honore de Balzac was published just as the age of bureaucracy was kicking into high gear in the mid-nineteenth century. Balzac delves deeply into the labyrinthine workings of a French agency, conveying the ma...

  • Catherine de Medici

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    Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a story cycle comprising more than 100 novels and stories. Although most of these works are set in nineteenth-century France, several hearken back to earlier periods. Catherine de' Medici centers on the life of...

  • The Celibates

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  • Christ in Flanders and Other Stories

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    This short tale is part of the "Philosophical Studies" section of Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy. Almost fable-like in tone, it recounts a boat ride carrying a group of passengers that represent a broad cross-section of society. When a sudden st...

  • The Collection of Antiquities

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    In this novel, one of the last vestiges of a genteel family, the Marquis d'Esgrignon, tries to navigate the new social and cultural landscape that has emerged in France's post-revolutionary period. Even though he is surrounded by some of the signs of...

  • Colonel Chabert And The Commission In Lunacy

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  • Colonel Chabert, and the Atheist's Mass

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    Scenes From Private Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human...

  • The Commission in Lunacy

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    Part of Honore de Balzac's sprawling epic The Human Comedy, the novella The Commission in Lunacy focuses on the story of a bachelor who feels his youth rapidly slipping away and tries to renew his sense of vigor and fulfillment through various means....

  • The Country Doctor

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    Part of the massive series that some regard as one of the masterworks of nineteenth-century realism, Honore de Balzac's The Human Comedy, the novel The Country Doctor focuses on Dr. Benassis, a physician by trade, who has deep-seated beliefs about so...

  • The Country Parson

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  • Cousin Pons

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    Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devot...

  • The Danger Of Being Too Innocent And Other Stories

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  • A Daughter of Eve

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    This short novel, part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's vast masterpiece The Human Comedy, includes the first appearances of key characters who return later in the series. A Daughter of Eve is a tale in which seemingly inno...

  • The Deputy Of Arcis

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  • The Deserted Woman

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    Some of Honore de Balzac's best writing focuses on the frustrations and passions of women trapped in unhappy marriages. In the novella "The Deserted Woman," the Vicomtesse de Beauseant is trapped, but it is partially a trap of her own making. Abandon...

  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

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    Mme. de Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked...

  • Domestic Peace

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  • Domestic Peace, and Paz

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    Scenes From Private Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human...

  • A Drama on the Seashore

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  • The Elixir Of Life

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    The Elixir of Life is a fantastic tale by the French novelist and writer Honoré de Balzac in which he gives his own version of the legend of Don Juan that many other writers and poets dealt with, including the English Lord Byron. Balzac’s appraisa...

  • The End Of Evil Ways

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  • An Episode Under the Terror

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  • Esther Happy

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  • Eve And David

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    Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when...

  • The Fair Imperia, And The Fair Imperia Married

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  • The False Courtesan And Other Stories

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  • Farewell

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  • The Firm Of Nucingen

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  • Gambara

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  • Gobseck

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  • Government Clerks

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  • A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris, Volume 12

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    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • The Hated Son

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  • The Hidden Masterpiece

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    First published in 1831, Honore de Balzac’s The Hidden Masterpiece, or Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, is a short story that deals with the theme of artistic creativity and appreciation. It has influenced a variety of literary men and artists including...

  • An Historical Mystery

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    Step back in history through the eyes of one of the masters of European realism. This keenly observed and utterly absorbing account of the period after Napoleon Bonaparte fell from power in nineteenth-century France is both an interesting historical ...

  • Honorine

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    A narrative about unceasing wait and unconditional love. The work dwells on relationship between a couple and the woman’s growing need to be independent. The unique theme captures the attention of reader from the outset....

  • The Human Comedy

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    An NYRB Classics OriginalCharacters from every corner of society and all walks of life -- lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,  unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, par...

  • Illusions Perdues

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    Honoré Balzac, dit Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) est un romancier, critique littéraire, essayiste, journaliste et écrivain français. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains français dans le domaine du roman réaliste, du roman p...

  • The Illustrious Gaudissart

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  • The Imaginary Mistress

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    Set against the backdrop of the Peninsular War, Balzac's novella "Juana" focuses on a storied family of French courtesans who have achieved legendary status. For many generations, the women have lived outside of the bounds of polite society, eschewin...

  • The King's Sweetheart, The Maid Of Thilouse, And The Reproach

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  • The Lesser Bourgeoisie

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  • Letters Of Two Brides

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  • Madame Firmiani

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    Master of realism Honore de Balzac highlights his brilliant knack for character development in the short story "Madame Firmiani." The story's plot is slight, dealing in large part with the mysterious identity of Madame Firmiani's husband. As always, ...

  • The Magic Skin

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    Famous perfectionist Honore de Balzac labored for years to bring the fascinating idea behind The Magic Skin to life in a novel, and critics and fans alike agree that it is one of the French writer's masterworks. The story follows the experiences ...

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    Though a relatively short story, "A Man of Business" is an important component of Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy, involving many of the recurring characters from the series and tying up a number of loose ends. As a fete thrown a...

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    In this long story, part of the Philosophical Studies section of Honore de Balzac's epic masterwork The Human Comedy, the author takes the uncharacteristic step of alluding to a previously published novel, Charles Robert Maturin's 1820 work Melmoth t...

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  • The Muse Of The Department

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    Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the al social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Com...

  • The Napoleon Of The People

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  • An Old Maid

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    Immerse yourself in the inner workings of a quaint French village in this charming novel from Honore de Balzac, an early master of literary realism. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzac's trademark insight into human motivations and moral...

  • Parisians In The Country

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In September, 1835, one of the richest heiresses of the faubourg Saint-Germain, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, the only daughter of the Marquis du Rouvre, married Comte Adam Mitgislas Laginski, a young Polish exile...

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  • Petty Troubles Of Married Life

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    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,...

  • Pierre Grassou

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    This short story is part of the Scenes of Paris Life section of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece The Human Comedy. Pierre Grassou is an artist who has many of the attributes necessary for success -- but lacks that spark of creativity. Rather than ...

  • Pierrette

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    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,...

  • Poor Relations

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    La Cousine Bette (English: Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by Honoré de Balzac. It has been adapted for film or television at least four times, including a 1998 movie starring Jessica Lange.Le Cousin Pons is a novel by Honoré de Balzac written in 18...

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    In this novella from Honore de Balzac, an impoverished mother and daughter slave away as embroiderers but are barely able to evade starvation. Finally, what seems to be a blessing enters into their lives -- an older gentleman falls in love with the d...

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    After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused by her own extravaga...

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    French writer Honore de Balzac had many unique strengths, and chief among them is his ability to limn and illuminate subtle differences between social classes. In this pastoral novel, Balzac explores the virtues and follies of country life through th...

  • A Start In Life

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    The novel A Start in Life is part of the Scenes of Private Life section of Honore de Balzac's masterpiece of nineteenth-century realism, The Human Comedy. In much of Balzac's work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. But in...

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    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories...

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    This series of three novellas is unified by an overarching motif: in all three tales, a mysterious secret society known as The Thirteen is at work behind the scenes. The men in the group have pledged eternal loyalty to each other, and if any member e...

  • The Two Brothers

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    Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau couldn't be more different. One is a cruel man who puts his ruthlessness to good use in a military career, while the other is a kind-hearted, sensitive soul who grows up to be a penniless artist. When the family's ...

  • The Two Poets

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  • Unconscious Comedians

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    In this novella from Honore de Balzac, the skilled artisan Palafox Gazonal arrives in Paris to settle some important business and perhaps make a splash in the city's thriving art scene. However, Gazonal is used to the slower-paced life in the provinc...

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  • The Vicar of Tours

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    This exquisite novella from master of French realism Honore de Balzac illustrates how greed and covetousness can infect and fester in even the most seemingly pure people and environments. An ascetic clergyman becomes the target of a nefarious plot. W...

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    Connie was now a thin, pale, delicate-looking--not handsome, but lovely girl. Her eyes, some people said, were too big for her face; but that seemed to me no more to the discredit of her beauty than it would have been a reproach to say that her soul ...

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  • Z. Marcas

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    FOR many years good fortune has granted to my sister and myself the happiness of living amid scenes of indescribable beauty and peoples of peculiar interest. The novelty of being the first white women to visit any particular spot has indeed long worn...

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  • Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants

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    A captivating story about human emotions and relations. Balzac narrates the tale of a man who suspects his wife of infidelity. He shows how relationships can suffer through miscommunication. Balzac proves himself as an author above par by his insight...

  • The Girl With the Golden Eyes

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    One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace - a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath...

  • The Physiology of Marriage

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    By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories...

  • A Prince of Bohemia

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    This short vignette from Honore de Balzac, a key figure in French realism, is a story within a story. The narrator, Nathan, regales a pair of aristocratic ladies with stories about the Rusticoli family and its most prominent member, La Palferine. At ...

  • Scenes From Provincial Life

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    Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French novelists. This collection contains Eugenie Grandet, A Study of Woman, Another Study of Woman, La Grande Breteche, Domestic Peace, and The Imaginary Mistress....

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  • A Study Of Woman

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    Part of Balzac's masterpiece, the multi-volume story cycle The Human Comedy, the short story "Study of a Woman" focuses on Madame de Listomere, an uptight model of propriety, who finds herself being flirted with by the rapscallion Eugene de Rastignac...

  • The Works Of Honor De Balzac

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Honore de Balzac has published 187 books.

Honore de Balzac does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Seamy Side of History and Other Stories Balzac, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Honore de Balzac, Droll Stories, was published in June 1928.

No. Honore de Balzac does not write books in series.
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