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By: Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Book cover Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote "criticisms" of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition to hyping the work before it even came out. It is a criticism of materialism and French bourgeoisie as so many of his compiled works seek to be. Some same characters reappear.

Book cover Cousin Betty

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a woman who resents her position as a "poor relation." As we follow her schemes to bring ruin upon the more privileged members of her family, we see a society in transition. The stability and idealism of the old order give way to a new bourgeois world in which virtue is strangled in the struggle for power and money...

Book cover Droll Stories
Book cover The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
Book cover Catherine De Medici
Book cover Cousin Pons

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of novels, collectively titled Poor Relations. While Cousin Betty tells the story of a bitter woman who seeks revenge on her wealthier relations, in Cousin Pons, Balzac turns to the story of an timid, innocent man who is exploited and victimized by the wealthier members of his extended family.Balzac offers probing character portraits and an indictment of greed and materialism in this detailed portrait of mid-19th-century French life...

Book cover A Woman of Thirty
Book cover At the Sign of the Cat & Racket
Book cover The Lily of the Valley
Book cover Gobseck

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accustomed them to. This is a continuation of the tale of one of those daughters, Mme Restaud.

Book cover The Atheist's Mass
Book cover A Passion in the Desert
Book cover The Hidden Masterpiece
Book cover Adieu
Book cover An Historical Mystery
Book cover The Country Doctor
Book cover The Duchesse De Langeais
Book cover Seraphita
Book cover Ferragus
Book cover Albert Savarus
Book cover Christ in Flanders
Book cover Beatrix
Book cover An Old Maid
Book cover The Marriage Contract
Book cover Bureaucracy
Book cover The Thirteen
Book cover The Ball at Sceaux
Book cover Facino Cane
Book cover A Man of Business
Book cover An Episode under the Terror
Book cover A Daughter of Eve
Book cover Gambara
Book cover The Recruit
Book cover The Alkahest
Book cover Melmoth Reconciled
Book cover The Lesser Bourgeoisie
Book cover Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Book cover The Deserted Woman
Book cover Vendetta
Book cover The Brotherhood of Consolation
Book cover The Two Brothers
Book cover Verdugo, El
Book cover A Prince of Bohemia
Book cover Ursula
Book cover Madame Firmiani
Book cover A Start in Life
Book cover Domestic Peace
Book cover Pierre Grassou
Book cover Firm of Nucingen

Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of one of Father Goriot's daughters. "James Waring" is a pseudonym of Ellen Marriage (Balzac was considered sometimes too racy by the Victorian Age).

Book cover Study of a Woman
Book cover A Second Home
Book cover Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Book cover Paz
Book cover Maitre Cornelius
Book cover Honorine
Book cover The Village Rector
Book cover Parisians in the Country
Book cover Z. Marcas
Book cover The Deputy of Arcis
Book cover The Hated Son

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