Honoré de Balzac - Libros y biografía

Once bitten, twice shy sometimes rings true. Madame de Beauseant must have been bitten very hard, for she became a hermit in her Normandy castle due to humiliation after being cast aside by her aristocratic...

It is sometimes difficult to know who most deserves our judgement.Do we look down more upon a shop owner for inventing a royal backstory for one of his items - or is the customer who believes the story...

The old, abandoned manor of La Grande Bretèche stands between the trees like a secret. Uncovered one day by Dr. Horace Bianchon whilst visiting the nearby town of Vendôme, the ruins will beckon any wandering...

The novella unfolds around a blind old man, Facino Cane who claims to be a descendant of the 14th century condottiere of the same name. The narrator meets Facino Cane at a wedding, and begins a conversation...

Countess Marie de Vandenesse, bored out of her mind in a marriage to a good man, decides to adopt an up-and-coming young playwright, Raoul Nathan, as her lover. Mistakenly believing his fortune is made,...

If you have seen Ricky Gervais in 'The Office', you will know how much comedy and pathos occurs in apparently mundane locations. In 'The Lesser Bourgeoisie', Honore de Balzac turns his sharp eye on the...

Spoiling a child is not just about letting them have a few extra sweets. In some cases, years of doting really do spoil them.Victurien d'Esgrignon was raised by his doting aunt and adoring father - a...

It begins with the undignified scene of two young men on a Parisian stagecoach, boasting about their love affairs with older, married women.Hubris turns to tragedy when the coach overturns, leaving one...

'An Historical Mystery' tells the story of a mysterious kidnapping, coupled with the romantic intrigue blossoming within the higher circles of power while Napoleon I was at the height of his reign. A...

Felix was rejected as a child by his mother and those scars never fully heal.In a book with great emotional depth, Honore de Balzac explores Felix' two major adult relationships with women through the...

When Milanese nobleman Count Andrea Marcosini sees Marianna in the crowd at the Palais-Royal in Paris, he immediately decides that she will be his. After all, this wealthy man with a wandering eye is...

With a sweeping narrative that features revolution, restoration, and colonial war, 'The Two Brothers' is Honore de Balzac at his masterful best.It focuses on the Bridau family, including Agathe, her two...

History lovers will revel in Balzac's social and political commentary of 19th century France in 'The Old Maid'. With skilful insight into the human experience, the life of a rich lady and her respective...

When the narrator and his wife visit an idyllic and picturesque town near the sea they meet a fisherman and a hermit. The ubiquitous poverty and squalor of the seaside town spills over into the lives...

"Vive la counter-revolution!"In 'Sons of the Soil', Balzac tells an extraordinary story of gentry and peasants, complacency and corruption, jealousy and revenge. And it has a contentious central message:...

"The Recruit" is a short story from Balzac's "Philosophical studies", set during the horrors of the Reign of Terror. An aristocratic mother is desperately awaiting the return of her only son and heir....

Texte intégralÉdition établie et postface par Jérôme LeroyZ. Marcas vit misérablement dans une chambre d’étudiant. Revenu de toute ambition politique et journalistique, il enseigne à deux étudiants pauvres...

Édition enrichie (Préface, notes, annexe, chronologie et bibliographie)Sur le point de mourir, Bartholoméo Belvidéro demande à son fils don Juan de le ressusciter en lui appliquant sur le corps, dès qu'il...

Eugénie Grandet est la fille de Félix Grandet, un ancien tonnelier, devenu grand propriétaire terrien, notamment de vignobles, et ancien maire de Saumur. Ayant beaucoup hérité, le père d'Eugénie Grandet...

César Birotteau, parfumeur à Paris enrichi par le succès de produits cosmétiques innovants, adjoint au maire et récipiendaire de la Légion d'honneur, décide de transformer son logement en appartement...

"Det magiske skind" er en roman fra 1831 af den franske romanforfatter og dramatiker Honoré de Balzac. Med udgangspunkt i det tidlige 19. århundredes Paris fortæller den historien om en ung mand, der...

One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual...

Torna nelle librerie italiane il libro incompiuto di Balzac sull’eleganza. «Per essere alla moda bisogna essere riposati, senza essere passati dal lavoro; altrimenti vincere una quaterna, essere figlio...

Dans un village de Norvège, perdu au milieu des glaces et des neiges, Minna, la fille du pasteur, éprouve une étrange attirance pour Séraphîtüs. Minna est éprise de Séraphîtüs, jeune homme aussi désirable...

Février 1824. Une ancienne courtisane, Esther Gobseck, se rend au bal masqué de l'Opéra en compagnie de Lucien de Rubempré, dont elle s'est éprise. En dépit de son déguisement, elle est reconnue et moquée...

One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l’Universite, conveying a stout man of middle...

“HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!” This exclamation was made by a lawyer’s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper—a messenger in fact—who at this moment was eating a piece...

In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance...

As the eye glances over a map of the coasts of Norway, can the imagination fail to marvel at their fantastic indentations and serrated edges, like a granite lace, against which the surges of the North...

Honoré de Balzac (/?b??lzæk, ?bæl-/; French: [?.n?.?e d(?) bal.zak]; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively...