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Perhaps the most famous of Balzac's novels, "Lost Illusions" paints a faithful picture of the spectacular but superficial world of contemporary society, and the indissoluble relationship between the bourgeois and aristocratic classes. Set in nineteenth century France, David Séchard is an innovative, hard-working young printer from Angoulême with aspirations to revolutionize the production of paper and provide for his new family. The victim of ...

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / General, Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Literary, Literary Criticism / European / French,

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 the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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 the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Reprint of the novella. Originally released in 1841.

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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. Compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight, they fully demonstrate the mastery of suspense and revelation that were the hallmarks of Balzac's genius. In "The Atheist's Mass, " we learn the tr...

This convenient volume includes 6 of the great French writer's most highly regarded short stories, including: "An Episode During the Terror, " "A Passion in the Desert, " "The Revolutionary Conscript, " "The Forsaken Woman, " "The Unknown Masterpiece, " 2 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages. Introduction. Footnotes.

Balzac's realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.

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 devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, how...

Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac's novels, ” writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac's towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting "the whole pell-mell of civilization.” In Père Goriot, the great novelist probes the "bourgeois tragedy” of money and power from two...

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 Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, however, the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyed by...

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 Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father's hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early...

The love of money and a passionate pursuit of it are seen as a driving force in post-Revolutionary France, and are studied in detail in the character of Grandet.

Eine Reihe von Werken Honoré de Balzacs, vorwiegend Erzählungen, spielt in der Zeit Napoleon Bonapartes, die hier in einem Band zusammengefasst ist. Im Mittelpunkt steht die spannende Kriminalgeschichte »Eine dunkle Affäre«, in der von einer fein gesponnenen politischen Intrige gegen den künftigen Kaiser, verknüpft mit einer aristokratischen Verschwörung gegen ihn, erzählt wird. Von einem wundersamen Abenteuer erfährt der Leser in »Eine Leiden...

Zu den ersten Werken, die Honoré de Balzac für seine »Menschliche Komödie« schrieb, gehört die Erzählung vom dämonischen Wucherer Gobseck. Dieser alte gerissene Finanzhai, der sich seiner Geldmacht als der Allbeherrscher in seiner Zeit und Gesellschaft bewußt ist, kennt die Geldbeutel und damit die Lebens- und Herzensgeheimnisse besonders der mondänen Gesellschaft, jede verschuldete oder unverschuldete Not. Unzugänglich jeder Täuschung, hört e...