Comédie Humaine
Title | Comédie Humaine PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Works of Honoré de Balzac
Title | The Works of Honoré de Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1901 |
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Father Goriot
Title | Father Goriot PDF eBook |
Author | Honore de Balzac |
Publisher | Prabhat Prakashan |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2021-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's 'real entrée' into La Comédie Humaine, his series of almost one hundred novels and short stories meant to depict “the whole pell-mell of civilization.
Balzac's Lives
Title | Balzac's Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Brooks |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1681374501 |
Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.
Lost Souls
Title | Lost Souls PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 699 |
Release | 2021-03-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1452965129 |
The first new translation of Balzac’s 1847 novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in half a century, fully annotated and with an extensive introduction In Lost Souls, Honoré de Balzac’s brilliant evocation of nineteenth-century Paris, we enter a world of glittering wealth and grinding poverty, teeming with strivers, poseurs, and pleasure seekers along with those who struggle merely to survive. Between the heights of Parisian society and the criminal world lurking underneath, fate is about to catch up with Lucien de Rubempré, last seen in Lost Illusions, as his literary aspirations, his love for the courtesan Esther van Gobseck, and his scheme to marry the wealthy Clotilde become entangled in the cunning and ultimately disastrous ambitions of the Abbé Herrera, a villain for the ages. An extraordinary volume in Balzac’s vast Human Comedy (in which he endeavored to capture all of society), Lost Souls appears here in its first new English translation in half a century. Keenly attuned to the acerbic charm and subtleties of Balzac’s prose, this edition also includes an introduction presenting thorough biographical, literary, and historical context, as well as extensive notes throughout the text—an invaluable resource for today’s readers as they navigate Balzac’s copious allusions to classical and contemporaneous politics and literature.
The Dramatic Works of Honoré de Balzac
Title | The Dramatic Works of Honoré de Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Drama (French). |
ISBN |
Honore de Balzac
Title | Honore de Balzac PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2014-12-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781505413458 |
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