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Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser.
Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Honoré De Balzac
Category: No Category | Series: Classics Ser.
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 Comedie Humaine. Compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight, they f ...Show more
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