Honoré de Balzac - Libros y biografía

There is a house at Douai in the rue de Paris, whose aspect, interior arrangements, and details have preserved, to a greater degree than those of other domiciles, the characteristics of the old Flemish...

An ambitious lawyer, a scandalous family secret, and a loan shark. Take these three elements and paint them onto a backdrop of upper-class Paris and you have Honore de Balzac's 'Gobseck'.The lawyer just...

Dr. Benassis is a doctor and a village major. Thanks to him, the once poor village has started to blossom. The village is getting richer and richer, and also the villagers seem very happy about the situation....

'Eugenie Grandet' is one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's 'The Human Comedy' cycle. The dreary Grandet household, inundated by the overwhelming greed and miserliness of Grandet himself,...

An overprotective father. A cunning criminal. A young student navigating the world of high society and love. In Paris, 1819, three stranger's fates are intertwined in a tale of corruption and greed. Pleased...

Edition enrichie (présentation, notes et chronologie)1819. Par une brûlante journée de l'été finissant, deux  chasseurs - deux amis, le marquis d'Albon et le baron Philippe de Sucy - égarés dans une forêt...

Edition enrichie (Préface, notes, dossier et bibliographie)« Un lac est plein d’amour ! » s’écrie Rosalie en ouvrant sa fenêtre sur « la belle nappe d’eau » des Rouxey. « Ils se sont aimés devant des...

Édition enrichie (Introduction, notes, dossier sur l'œuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)A quarante-trois ans, Rose Cormon, vieille fille candide et sans beauté, mais héritière d'une des belles fortunes...

Paris, octobre 1830. Raphaël, jeune aristocrate ruiné, fatigué de vivre, déambule dans la ville en ruminant ses idées noires. Il entre par hasard chez un antiquaire, et y découvre l’objet le plus insolite...

Edition enrichie (préface, histoire du texte, notes, bibliographie)« Quand tu te marieras, reprit le comte […], n’ accomplis pas légèrement cet acte, le plus important de tous ceux auxquels nous oblige...

Edition enrichie (préface, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie)À Guérande, petite ville immobilisée dans sa tradition, Calyste du Guénic, jeune aristocrate breton pour qui l'amour est comme une...

« Madame, je vous jure une fidélité qui ne se déliera que par ma mort. Oh ! prenez ma vie… », écrit Gaston de Nueil à Mme de Beauséant, recluse en Normandie, dans son château de Courcelles, depuis la...

When Colonel Chabert marries a prostitute named Rose Chapotel, he doesn't know yet how the marriage will affect the rest of his life. Chabert leaves for a war in Russia, where he is seriously wounded....

Judges receive legal training, but they cannot automatically be given courage and the wisdom of Solomon.That is what is needed when larger-than-life socialite the Marquise d'Espard petitions Judge Jean-Jules...

Exquisitely deploying the story-within-a-story narrative, 'Honorine' is a tale casting piercing insight into the fabric of the human condition. Comtesse Honorine de Bauvan was married off to the Comte...

Colonel Victor d'Aiglemont is a tall, slender and very handsome man in his early thirties. When young Julie lays her eyes on Victor, she is fascinated by the charming man. Julie's father, however, is...

Lucien Chardon is a young man who wants nothing more than to become a notable poet. He lives in a small village, and it is not the place for an aspiring writer. When a married lady Madame de Bargeton...

There are dilemmas - and then there are dilemmas. Juanito Leganes faces the sort of choice that is beyond our worst nightmares.It comes after his father, Marquis of the Spanish town of Menda, leads an...

You know that feeling when you have just sent a text or an email to the wrong person? Well, in the 19th century the equivalent was a wrongly-directed letter - and there is no 'delete' button for pen and...

Due to Balzac's death in 1850, 'The Deputy of Arcis' was left incomplete at its most compelling moment. A political satire criticizing the electoral system, taking place in the provinces of southern France...

In 'Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants' Balzac skillfully traces a dazzling panorama of 19th century Parisian streets and vividly invokes a sparkling menagerie of characters in ultra-fine detail.A young...

Veronique Graslin is a woman of strength.Despite being scarred by smallpox at 11, and then railroaded into a miserable marriage with a man who resembles an "antique satyr", she builds a life of wealth...

An Italian and Spanish love triangle with Napoleon's army on the march as the backdrop, 'Juana' is an all-action story about two morally corrupt Italian soldiers in the French army in Spain.They lurk...

Why do good people suffer?This is the question Honoré de Balzac poses in 'The Hated Son', set in Normandy during the eighth war of religion between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots.The kind and gentle...

Honoré de Balzac's short story ´The illustrious Gaudissaart´ reveals the arrogance and prejudice on both sides of the city-country divide.When a slick salesman from the big city visits the provincial...

Superstition, sorcery, dark strangers, and a great poet in disguise, Honoré de Balzac takes a new turn in 'The Exiles'.Set in 14th century Paris, this novella sees sergeant Tirechair host two strangers...

Fans of 'The Godfather' trilogy and 'The Sopranos' will know a thing or two about vendettas.In Honore de Balzac's ´The Vendetta´, tragic consequences are laid bare. What begins as a love story between...

"Now that I am free, perfectly free, I intend to remain so."Today, this would be a clear message to look for another online date.In 19th-century Paris, Leon de Preval, a captain in the Sixth Horse, does...

"The Marriage Contract" is included in "Scenes from Private Life" and follows the marriage of a Parisian gentleman to beautiful Spanish girl, who comes into a lot of money. Presenting an intriguing portrait...

A short story ushering the reader into the violent and horrifying events that took place during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. The tale follows an old ex-Carmelite nun who is hiding...