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Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac, (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus. Owing 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 multi-faceted charac...

Un début dans la vie (A Start in Life) is a novel by the French writer Honoré de Balzac. It is the sixth of the Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes of Private Life) in La Comédie humaine. The novel was serialized in the review La Législature in 1842 under the title Le Danger des mystifications (The Dangers of Gasconade). In 1845 it appeared under its present title in the second Furne edition of La Comédie humaine. Un début dans la vie was the fi...

Une double famille (A Second Home) is a lengthy short story by Honoré de Balzac. The story first appeared in 1830 under the title La femme vertueuse (The Virtuous Woman). It was subsequently published in 1832 by Mame et Delaunay as part of Balzac's Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from Private Life). In 1835, it appeared, in an edition by Madame Béchet, in the collection Études de m¿urs (Studies of Manners). The novel only acquired its present ...

Corruption. Deceit. Money. Publishing. Rival factions and the flippancies of rhetoric. Fortunes lost and won. Genius stumbles and greed overtakes. Is it the tale of New York City today? No it's Balzac's 19c Paris. (Yonina) About the author: Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac, (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, i...

Two aristocratic sisters raised in religious seclusion by their pious mother are suddenly married off into the glittering, treacherous Paris society of the 1830's, the younger to a domineering banker, the elder to a humane and loving count. This excellent novella from the 'private life' collection of Balzac's Comédie Humaine focusses on the elder daughter, Madame Felix de Vandenesse, who has no need to be dissatisfied with her husband, yet n...

The Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker, first published by Heinemann in 1903. The story is a first-person narrative of a young man pulled into an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy. It explores common fin de siècle themes such as imperialism, the rise of the New Woman and feminism, and societal progress. Prepublication issues toward a US edition were deposited for copyright by...

Dracula's Guest" is a short story by Bram Stoker, first published in the short story collection Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914). It is believed to be the first chapter for Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, but was deleted prior to publication as the original publishers felt it was superfluous to the story. It is widely believed that "Dracula's Guest" is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which...

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Nonsense novels is a collection of superficial spoofs about every imaginable literary genre - the detective story, the hero story, the antihero story, the sea drama, the family drama, etc. He basically took a certain theme that most writers made a formula of and then annihilated it. But unlike most spoofs and parodies, Leacock never risked turning over-critical and over-assessing. You can see his efforts to keep the reader laughing, and noth...

A fantastic and sober look at why we humans can't seem to build that perfect society that we have always dreamer of. Communism and socialism? No altruistic or uncorrupt leadership can be found to make it work. Capitalism and democracy? Pretty good options for us all things considered. Starvation despite great advancements in machines and production? We produce for man's wants not needs. Lealock's work is simple yet expansive. He answers many q...

The Hohenzollerns in America: With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1919. The title references the Hohenzollerns coming to America as simple immigrants and an imagined Bolshevik government taking power in Germany. A work of war fiction, it "reflected the rhetoric of imperialism, total victory and Germanophobia that effective propaganda had made an intrinsic par...

CONTENTS I Winsome Winnie, Or, Trial and Temptation II John And I, Or, How I Nearly Lost My Husband III The Split In the Cabinet, Or, The Fate of England IV Who Do You Think Did It? Or, The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery V Broken Barriers, Or, Red Love on a Blue Island VI The Kidnapped Plumber: A Tale of the New Time VII The Blue and the Grey: A Pre-War War Story VIII Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story About the author: Stephen P. ...

This is a humorous book and the sense of fun and wit has lasted well, given the book was published 100 years ago. Mr Leacock provides his impressions of British humour, business, the city of London, the government and newspapers of the time, as well as the essay on why Oxford University is pre-eminent amongst the seats of higher learning in the world - it's down to the ivy-clad walls, tutors blowing smoke into the faces of the students at tu...

Stephen Leacock was arguably, for a decade or so after the First World War, the most popular humorous writer in English. He is little known today, but his work is surprisingly relevant to modern readers. Some parts have aged beyond relevance, but then there are little spurts of brilliance which he would have dreaded to know are still cacklingly funny now. For example Moonbeams, which is 99 years old, contains a satirical skewering of gamificat...

Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock FRSC (30 December 1869 - 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies. Early in his career, Leacock turned to fiction, humour, and short reports to supplement (and ultimately exceed) his regular income. His st...

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter. Arcadian Adventures follows the members of the 'Mausoleum Club' on Plutoria Avenue, in an unnamed American city (usually referred to as Plutoria, after its main street), and po...

A hilarious and often poignant read, which proves that human beings have always believed in a Golden Age of Innocence which came to an end just before they were born, or at some point in their early childhood. This Grumpy Old Man - one of the great comic writers of his day - bemoans the fast pace of modern life, its impersonal nature, its crazy educational initiatives, the lack of connection between people and the earth, leading them to long f...

The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Count Westwest. Kafka died before he could finish the work and the novel was posthumously published against his wishes. Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is often understood to be ab...