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1) Cousin Bette
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Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author's last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeare's Othello and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The novel focuses on the life and exploits...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Elixir of Life" by Honoré de Balzac. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Atheist's Mass" by Honoré de Balzac. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Father Goriot (1835) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. An early work in his La Comédie humaine sequence, Father Goriot has since become one of Balzac's most critically and commercially successful novels. It contains several characters who appear throughout his other books and is considered to be the first novel in which he perfected his hallmark realist style.
The novel, set in Paris, follows Eugène de Rastignac, a young law student...
5) Cousin Pons
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Cousin Pons (1847) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. One of the final works in Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, Cousin Pons originally began as a novella before being extended to the length of a novel. It serves as both a beautiful meditation on the nature of Platonic male friendship and a vitriolic condemnation of the vanity and greed of the French bourgeoisie. In typical fashion, however, Balzac also turns a critical eye to the...
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La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, or The Two Brothers) is an 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac, and is one of The Celibates in the series La Comédie humaine. It tells the story of the Bridau family, trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of mishaps. Though for years an overlooked work in Balzac's canon, it has gained popularity and respect in recent years. The Guardian listed The Black Sheep 12 on its list of the 100 Greatest Novels...
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Ce roman fait partie des Scènes de la vie parisienne dans la section Les Parents pauvres tout comme La Cousine Bette. Pons, musicien sans fortune, bon et naïf, est traité en parent pauvre par sa riche famille, les Camusot de Marville. Le jour o ils découvrent que la collection d'objets d'art qu'il a accumulée est d'une immense valeur, ils le dépouillent et le font mourir. Le mal triomphe en toute beauté. Ce roman sonne comme une réflexion...
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Honoré de Balzac est né à Tours le 20 mai 1799 et mort à Paris le 18 août 1850. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains réalistes français et comme l'inventeur du genre fantastique, par Charles Baudelaire notamment. Sa principale oeuvre demeure La Comédie humaine, cycle recouvrant plus de dix romans, à travers lequel il entend décrire la société française et, selon sa célèbre formule, faire concurrence à l'état civil...
10) La cousine Bette
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C'est le premier portrait de femme profondément destructrice, rancunière et laide que Balzac ait produit. Elle se voit apparentée à un animal malfaisant : ses sourcils épais réunis par un bouquet, sa face longue et simiesque laissent deviner derrière la paysanne des Vosges un caractère de sauvage. Et c'est bien d'une sauvage dont il s'agit. La cousine est animée d'une rage et d'une passion impuissante. Telle une araignée tissant sa toile,...
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Honoré de Balzac est né à Tours le 20 mai 1799 et mort à Paris le 18 août 1850. Il est considéré comme l'un des plus grands écrivains réalistes français et comme l'inventeur du genre fantastique, par Charles Baudelaire notamment. Sa principale oeuvre demeure La Comédie humaine, cycle recouvrant plus de dix romans, à travers lequel il entend décrire la société française et, selon sa célèbre formule, faire concurrence à l'état civil...
12) Le Pere Goriot
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One of renowned French author Honore de Balzac's finest works, Pere Goriot provides a fascinating glimpse into Parisian life of the early 19th century. The rich character studies and themes of class, personal ambition, and materiality make this insightful novel as compelling today as when it was first published. At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-GeneviEve, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident...
13) Old Goriot
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Balzac's universally loved novel explores the great theme of money and its effect on the human character. Old Goriot is a lodger at Madame Vauquer's Parisian boarding house. At first, his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are reduced, he is gradually shunned. He moves into smaller and less desirable rooms in the house, and soon his only remaining visitors are two beautiful young women. The mystery as to who they are and what is happening...
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Obra maestra de Balzac, Las ilusiones perdidas cuenta la historia de un joven de provincias con ambiciones artísticas que sueña con triunfar en París. La odisea de Lucien Rubempré desde la inocencia de su Angulema natal hasta el fango del fracaso constituye uno de los periplos narrativos más audaces, embelesadores e imponentes de la narrativa del siglo XIX. Crónica de toda una época, elegía y recuerdo de los perdidos sueños de juventud, esta...
15) Les Paysans
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Un fils d'ébéniste, suite à une brillante carrière militaire est anobli par Napoléon, devenu le comte de Montcornet, il épouse une aristocrate et rachète un domaine en Bourgogne. C'est alors qu'il sera confronté à une ruralité plus rétive que prévu. Si j'ai, pendant huit ans, cent fois quitté, cent fois repris ce livre, le plus considérable de ceux que j'ai résolu d'écrire, c'est que tous mes amis, comme vous-même, ont compris que...
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Una bellísima cortesana, casi adolescente y enamorada, un poeta-vividor, también enamorado, y un ex convicto serán los personajes centrales de esta novela que, aunque escrita con estilo irregular, corrobora una vez más el genio creativo del autor -aglutinador de psicologías y entornos sociales-, capaz de captar la complejidad universal, pasada y presente, de la condición humana. Si bien la novela se inicia en un baile de máscaras de la ópera,...
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Esplendores y miserias de las cortesanas» conocido también como A Harlot High and Low, se publicó en cuatro partes entre 1838 y 1847: La feliz Esther (Esther heureuse, 1838) Lo que el amor le cuesta a un anciano (À combien l'amour revient aux vieillards, 1843) El fin de los caminos del mal (O mènent les mauvais chemins, 1846) La última encarnación de Vautrin (La Dernière encarnación de Vautrin, 1847) Continúa la historia de Lucien de Rubempré,...
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Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau are completely unlike each other: Philippe, a once courageous soldier and Napoleon's former aide-de-camp, is their mother's favourite, while Joseph, a poor and aspiring artist, is the less favoured of the two. When their mother, Agathe, is reduced to poverty and Philippe amounts gambling debts following unemployment, the family joins together to focus their attentions on Agathe's brother, Jean-Jacques Rouget, the...
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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 and drink begin to banter about the qualities and attributes that characterize the ideal woman. Gradually, the guests begin to reminisce about their own experiences and encounters with perfect and not-so-perfect...
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