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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comédie Humaine, " which presented a panorama of French life.

A continuation of Balzac's collection of short stories exploring women's role in society, particularly in marriage. Passion and adultery are constant themes where wives are beautiful, intelligent, courageous and resourceful while husbands are dull, unimaginative and frequently vindictive. The collection is famous for its portrait of the Femme de trente ans so admired by Sainte-Beuve. This edition reproduces the text of the 1832 edition. It com...

On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies wi

Bette nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her cousin Adeline, on whom she financially depends. But the uncontrolled sexual appetites of Adelines husband will give Bette the opportunity to exact her vengeance.

Bette nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her cousin Adeline, on whom she financially depends. But the uncontrolled sexual appetites of Adelines husband will give Bette the opportunity to exact her vengeance.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comédie Humaine, " which presented a panorama of French life.

Honor¿e Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Com¿e Humaine, " which presented a panorama of French life.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Ostensibly a tale of sexual androgyny, the power of love, and its bitter aftermath, this volume is in fact a study of the force of art on society and the deadly immortality of beauty. The nameless narrator attends a ball held by a wealthy Parisian family whose fortune comes from a work of art, and there meets an extraordinary old woman who bears a strange resemblance to the statue depicted in the painting. He returns to his lodgings to tell th...

...The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from the mixture of the Angouleme scenes of its first and third parts with the purely Parisian interest of Un Grand Homme de Province . It is hardly possible to exaggerate the gain in distinctness and lucidity of arrangement derived from putting...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is part of the History of the Thirteen trilogy written by Honora de Balzac. Balzac was the first writer to write about the social scene France. The introduction tells of urban and economic life in Paris. The story is set is a fine mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare, where a man becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman. The paradoxical twists in this story come to a conclusion with a wrenching finality.

The volume of short stories which, in the first complete edition of the Comedie, opens with Les Marana, contains, with that in which La Recherche de l'Absolu leads off, the very finest productions of the author on a small scale, and they now appear together, La Recherche excepted. Almost all the pieces herein contained were early work, written when Balzac was under the combined excitement of his emergence from the valley of the shadow in which...

Les Cent contes drolatiques - premier dixain is Balzac's first collection of ribald short stories inspired by Rabelais, Boccacio, La Fontaine and other classics of the genre. The text is that of the 1832 edition. The book comes with a cd-rom containing an extensive critical apparatus established by Andrew Oliver a well-known Balzac scholar.

Les Cent contes drolatiques - premier dixain is Balzac's first collection of ribald short stories inspired by Rabelais, Boccacio, La Fontaine and other classics of the genre. The text is that of the 1832 edition. The book comes with a cd-rom containing an extensive critical apparatus established by Andrew Oliver a well-known Balzac scholar.

In The Duchesse of Langeais, Honore De Balzac tells us the story of an ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a Napoleonic war hero. The depth of character is astonishing and the writing superb.

In Eugenie Grandet we are told the story of a young girl whose life is complicated by her father's incessant greed. Here we see the sins of the father visited upon the daughter as she attempts to rebel against his attitudes. Fully realized characters abound in this truly moving book.

Père Goriot is widely considered Balzac's most important novel. This is the story of the relationship between a doting father and his two adult daughters. Blinded by his love for his children, Père Goriot can not see their flaws and gives them everything they ask for even though the giving destroys him. A cautionary tale about the dangers of placing society and money before all else.