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Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French
novelists. This is a collection of his stories.
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The Country Doctor
Ellen Marriage, Goerge Saintsbury
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The Human Comedy, La Comedie Humaine, Volume 4, includes the following books (complete and unabridged) - The Duchesse Of Langeais, Madame Firmiani, Sons Of The Soil, Scenes From A Courtesan's Life, Modeste Mignon, The Purse, The Ball At Sceaux, The Marriag (Hardcover)
Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Ellen Marriage
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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 ten works in La
Comedie Humaine, in their recommended reading order: The Duchesse
Of Langeais, Madame Firmiani, Sons Of The Soil, Scenes From A
Courtesan's Life, Modeste Mignon, The Purse, The Ball At Sceaux,
The Marriage Contract, Gobseck, The Deserted Woman
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The Human Comedy, La Comedie Humaine, Volume 3 - Ferragus, Chief Of The Devorants, The Message, Colonel Chabert, Facino Cane, Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial At Paris, Eve And David, La Grenadiere, Massimilla Doni, The Lily Of The Valley, Melmoth Rec (Hardcover)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Ellen Marriage
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Discovery Miles 19 270
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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 sixteen works in La
Comedie Humaine, in their recommended reading order: Ferragus,
Chief Of The Devorants, The Message, Colonel Chabert, Facino Cane,
Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial At Paris, Eve And David, La
Grenadiere, Massimilla Doni, The Lily Of The Valley, Melmoth
Reconciled, The Atheist's Mass, The Jealousies Of A Country Town,
An Old Maid, The Collection Of Antiquities, A Drama On The Seashore
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The Human Comedy, La Comedie Humaine, Volume 2, includes the following books (complete and unabridged) - A Woman Of Thirty, The Thirteen, The Girl With The Golden Eyes, The Two Brothers, The Elixir Of Life, Catherine De' Medici, Eugenie Grandet, Rise And (Hardcover)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Ellen Marriage
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Discovery Miles 20 000
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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 twelve works in La
Comedie Humaine, in their recommended reading order: A Woman Of
Thirty, The Thirteen, The Girl With The Golden Eyes, The Two
Brothers, The Elixir Of Life, Catherine De' Medici, Eugenie
Grandet, Rise And Fall Of Cesar Birotteau, The Hidden Masterpiece,
Sarrasine, The Hated Son, Farewell
In Balzac's classic study of obsession, a chance meeting changes
Balthazar Claes' life as it introduces him to alchemy and initiates
his quest of the absolute. Throughout, our sympathy is equally
divided between Balthazar's single-minded determination to push
back the frontiers of knowledge, and the ruin of his family. "The
Quest Of The Absolute" Was first published in France in 1834 and
appears in a new edition from Dedalus, translated by Ellen Marriage
and with an afterword and chronology by Christopher Smith.
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henri Murger. Translated by
Ellen Marriage and John Selwyn. Introduction by Maurice Samuels
"Today, as of old, every man who enters on an artistic career,
without any other means of livelihood than his art itself, will be
forced to walk in the paths of Bohemia."--from the Preface Based
largely upon Henri Murger's own experiences and those of his fellow
artists, "The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter" was originally
produced as a play in 1849 and first appeared in book form in 1851.
It was an immediate sensation. The novel consists of a series of
interrelated episodes in the lives of a group of poor friends--a
musician, a poet, a philosopher, a sculptor, and a painter--who
attempt to maintain their artistic ideals while struggling for
food, shelter, and sex. Set in the ancient Latin Quarter, a vibrant
and cosmopolitan area near the University of Paris, the novel is a
masterful portrait of nineteenth-century Parisian artistic life.
"Bohemian" soon became synonymous with "artist," and it is from
Murger's novel that the word and concept entered the English
language. Drawn from real-life characters and events, the themes of
love, sacrifice, and "selling out" are immediately recognizable to
the modern reader. Capturing the heart, spirit, and bittersweet
humor of the world of struggling artists, "The Bohemians of the
Latin Quarter" is the universal story of one's attempt to leave a
mark on the world. Henri Murger (1822-1861) wrote for magazines and
newspapers and authored several books of fiction but is remembered
today only for this novel of artistic life in nineteenth-century
Paris. 2004 432 pages 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 ISBN 978-0-8122-1884-8 Paper
$29.95s 19.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0095-9 Ebook $29.95s 19.50 World
Rights Fiction, Literature, Cultural Studies Short copy: Known
chiefly as the basis for Puccini's great opera "La Boheme," and
resurrected more recently as the musical "Rent," "The Bohemians of
the Latin Quarter" is one of the most culturally influential French
novels of the nineteenth century.
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The Country Doctor
Ellen Marriage, Goerge Saintsbury
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Discovery Miles 7 830
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