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Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French
novelists. This is a collection of his stories.
Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French
novelists. This is a collection of his stories.
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The Human Comedy, La Comedie Humaine, Volume 1 - Father Goriot, The Chouans, Episode Under The Terror, Vendetta, The Recruit, The Red Inn, Thought And Act, Double Retribution, Juana, Passion In The Desert, The Exiles, Almae Sorori, Christ In Flanders, Mai (Hardcover)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Clara Bell
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R1,964
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a French novelist and
playwright. His great work was a series of short stories and novels
collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which gives a picture of
swathes of French society in the years after the 1815 fall of
Napoleon Bonaparte. Balzac had plenty of experiences to draw upon,
he had been an apprentice in a law office, a publisher, printer,
businessman, critic, and politician and failed at all of these
pursuits. The novels reveal his difficulties with all these
careers. Many of these books have been adapted for the screen and
to this day they are a source of inspiration for writers,
filmmakers and critics. This volume includes the first twenty-one
works in La Comedie humaine, in their recommended reading order: 1.
Father Goriot 2. The Chouans 3. An Episode Under The Terror 4.
Vendetta 5. The Recruit 6. The Red Inn 7. Thought And Act 8. A
Double Retribution 9. Juana 10. A Passion In The Desert 11. The
Exiles 12. Almae Sorori 13. Christ In Flanders 14. Maitre Cornelius
15. A Second Home 16. An Historical Mystery 17. At The Sign Of The
Cat And Racket 18. The Executioner 19. Domestic Peace 20. Louis
Lambert 21. The Alkahest
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Gerard Dou (Hardcover)
W (Wilhelm) B 1876 Martin; Clara Bell
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R910
Discovery Miles 9 100
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Seraphita (Hardcover)
Honoră© De Balzac, Clara Bell
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R949
Discovery Miles 9 490
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The Cathedral (Hardcover)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Clara Bell
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R810
Discovery Miles 8 100
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The Virgin had appeared to two children on a hill. By another
coincidence, this Saturday was the eve of the Festival of Our Lady
of Seven Dolours. And she appeared as Our Lady of Tears in that
desert landscape of stubborn rocks and dismal hills. Weeping
bitterly, She had uttered reproofs and threats. The fame of this
event spread far and wide; frantic thousands scrambled up fearful
paths to a spot so high that trees could not grow there. Suddenly
the peaks parted, a wide opening brought the train out into broad
daylight; the scene lay clear before them, terrible on all sides.
"Le Drac " exclaimed the Abbe Gevresin, pointing to a sort of
liquid serpent at the bottom of the precipice, writhing and tossing
between rocks in the very jaws of the pit.
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On a coach ride between towns, a callow young man gets caught up in
a round of tale-telling with his fellow passengers and ends up
committing an indiscretion that will take a lifetime to undo . . .
In the town of Besancon, a cloistered young girl reads a romance
penned by a mysterious newcomer and schemes to take the place of
the story's real-life inspiration: a beautiful Italian duchess . .
. Two lovers stand in defiance of the age-old feud that has
decimated their families: a vendetta that even Napoleon Bonaparte
himself may be powerless to stop . . . Beginning again in life,
whether in one's profession, or, to a lesser extent, for the
purpose of concealing one's identity, is the theme that unifies the
three stories (A Start in Life, Albert Savarus, and The Vendetta)
in this volume of The Human Comedy. Left unfinished at the time of
Balzac's death, La Comedie Humaine is a vast literary undertaking
composed of some hundred short stories, novellas, and novels set in
the shadow of the Napoleonic Wars during the Bourbon Restoration
and the July Monarchy. Throughout, Balzac utilizes nineteenth
century French society to examine humanity and the human experience
with all its attendant virtues, vices, and peculiarities. The third
volume of Noumena Press's Human Comedy features detailed background
information on each of the stories, 27 illustrations, more than 60
pages of annotations, and two appendices that contain "Journey by
Coucou" by Laure Surville (Balzac's sister) and "Mateo Falcone" by
Prosper Merimee--stories that were the inspiration for Balzac's A
Start in Life and The Vendetta, respectively. "Journey by Coucou"
appears in English translation here for the first time. Honore de
Balzac (1799-1850) was one of France's most prolific and
influential authors. In his lifetime, he worked as a legal clerk,
publisher, printer, businessman, and even ran for political office.
Failing in all these endeavors, he was nonetheless able to make use
of these experiences in his writing to create some of the most
memorable stories and characters in French literature.
. . . the chance meeting of a renowned painter and a mysterious
girl blossoms into love, but when their ensuing courtship is marred
by the disappearance of a purse full of money, their newfound
happiness threatens to unravel . . . to the north of Paris in the
port city of Le Havre, a drama of love and deception unfolds when
the last and fiercely guarded daughter of a once prosperous family
falls in love with the verses of a famous poet, but is this great
man of letters with whom she enters into an impassioned
correspondence really the person she believes him to be? . . . The
theme of reality versus illusion, particularly in matters of love,
dominates the two works of this second volume (The Purse and
Modeste Mignon) of Balzac's magnum opus. Left unfinished at the
time of the writer's death, La Comedie Humaine is a vast literary
undertaking composed of some hundred short stories, novellas, and
novels set in the shadow of the Napoleonic Wars during the Bourbon
Restoration and the July Monarchy. Throughout, Balzac utilizes
nineteenth century French society to examine humanity and the human
experience with all its attendant virtues, vices, and
peculiarities.
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