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A Daughter of Eve

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-10-24

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English

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Balzac’s shorter novels, A Daughter of Eve is full of the richly-drawn characters that are his hallmark, and demonstrates less of the cynicism that is common in his

Description Marie-Angélique and Marie-Eugénie are two sisters raised in a very strict household, who marry very different men: the former a cutthroat banker, the latter a man who has given his wife everything she needs save money, but who lacks any adventure in his spirit. In short, he’s boring. This leads Marie-Eugénie to make some bad decisions, and it will take quick thinking and bold action if she is to be saved from certain disaster. Although one of Balzac’s shorter novels, A Daughter of Eve is full of the richly-drawn characters that are his hallmark, and demonstrates less of the cynicism that is common in his ...

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A Marriage Settlement

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-12-23

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Description Paul de Manerville is the scion of a well-known and wealthy family in Bordeaux. After his father’s death, he leaves the family estate and spends several years in various positions in prominent cities in Europe. Although well-traveled, Paul is not wise to the ways of the world or of the people in it. So when he decides he wants to find someone to marry, his close friend argues strenuously against it. As with all men who think more of themselves than they should, Paul ignores his friend, and soon focuses his attentions on Natalie Evangelista, the daughter of a wealthy Spaniard and his Creole wife who settled at Bordeaux in the earlier years of the century. Her father passed away when she was a child, and she has been brought up by her...

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A Start in Life

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-10-24

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English

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Description Oscar Husson is a young man with an overdeveloped sense of pride. His mother, who has pampered him excessively, places him on a coach to go spend time with a friend of hers to see if Oscar’s prospects can be improved, but Oscar proceeds to make a fool of himself. Suffering the consequences of his humiliation, his mother pulls other strings to land him a lesser job, where Oscar eventually falls flat again. Forced into the military by his circumstances and his lack of other prospects, he finally redeems himself. At its core a bildungsroman, A Start in Life is filled with the types of side characters that inhabit every Balzac story: the rich, the pretenders...

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A Woman of Thirty

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-12-09

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English

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Description A Woman of Thirty is unusual in that the protagonist is thirty years of age in just one of the six vignettes that make up the novel. As the novel opens, Julie is a young girl in her late teenage years. She and her father are going to see Napoleon and his army as they embark on the campaign that ended with his defeat at Leipzig. Julie is in love with a colonel, which is an unpleasant surprise to her father. He warns her of the man’s many weaknesses and tells her she’s not ready for married life—and definitely not married life with him. Like most young woman of that age, she doesn’t listen, and quickly finds herself in a marriage with a man who’s not what she imagined. The remaining five vignettes drop in on Julie at various...

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Albert Savarus

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-10-24

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English

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Description Besançon has no use for strangers, at least until the lawyer Albert Savaron shows up. Before anyone realizes it, he’s won several cases—including a prominent one for the local diocese—and started a newspaper. Suddenly his name is on everyone’s lips, and much of the discussion revolves around why this mysterious lawyer has come to their small town. After reading a novella serialized in his newspaper and intuiting that it’s perhaps at least somewhat autobiographical, the daughter of the most prominent woman in Besançon determines that she must penetrate Albert’s mystery. What follows is vintage Balzac, where the best-laid plans rarely work out as...

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Béatrix

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-11-21

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English

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Balzac’s vivid characterizations provide the compelling backdrop to the story of Calyste’s introduction to love. Béatrix, as originally written..." data-title="Книга Béatrix">

Description The du Guénics are one of the oldest families in Brittany, and Calyste is the twenty-one year old only son of the patriarch. A long-time family friend is determined to marry off one of her nieces to Calyste, but he’s in love with a woman of forty. Although Camille is flattered by the attentions of a man half her age, she recognizes the futility of his feelings. She decides that she’ll introduce him to her friend Béatrix, a twenty-eight year old woman of the world, with far-reaching implications for everyone involved. Balzac’s vivid characterizations provide the compelling backdrop to the story of Calyste’s introduction to love. Béatrix, as originally written...

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Eugénie Grandet

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Honoré de Balzac

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2025-02-24

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English

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Description M. Grandet, a vine-grower, lessor, and ruthless businessman, is the richest man in the town of Saumur. He’s also a miser: he lives in a decrepit house, parcels out sugar and eggs as if they’ll never be replenished, and lights only a single candle in the parlor at night. He’s worth many millions, but he and his family live as paupers. His daughter, Eugénie, has no idea they’re rich; austerity is all she has ever known. But the arrival of a handsome, impoverished cousin from Paris, and the love she develops for him, makes her begin to see things differently. When she decides to help her cousin, her father’s reaction throws the family into crisis, and it’s unclear how it can resolved—if it can be resolved at...

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Father Goriot

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Honoré de Balzac

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2022-03-19

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English

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Balzac’s most important works, is part of his novel sequence The Human Comedy. It’s the first of Balzac’s novels to feature recurring characters, a technique that he famously developed in his subsequent novels.

Set in Paris during the Bourbon Restoration of the early 1800s, Father Goriot follows Eugène de Rastignac, a student born to noble roots but little means, as he tries to climb the social ladder in Paris. The impoverished Goriot is staying at the same boardinghouse as Rastignac—and Rastignac sees opportunity in Goriot’s richly-married and elegant daughters.

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Description Father Goriot, today considered one of Balzac’s most important works, is part of his novel sequence The Human Comedy. It’s the first of Balzac’s novels to feature recurring characters, a technique that he famously developed in his subsequent novels. Set in Paris during the Bourbon Restoration of the early 1800s, Father Goriot follows Eugène de Rastignac, a student born to noble roots but little means, as he tries to climb the social ladder in Paris. The impoverished Goriot is staying at the same boardinghouse as Rastignac—and Rastignac sees opportunity in Goriot’s richly-married and elegant daughters. The novel has been widely...

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Letters of Two Brides

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-10-24

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English

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Description Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel, largely consisting of letters between two women who become friends in a convent in their teenage years. They begin their correspondence when they depart the order as young women and embark on their lives in different areas of France. Louise is a woman of passion, a lover of love, who must have a great romance in order to be fulfilled. Renée is measured, a women of sense, desiring a love that will last a lifetime rather than (in her way of thinking) flame out like a comet. In several of their epistles, each takes the other to task over her approach to life and love. As their ages and respective marriages progress, it becomes obvious where ...

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Lost Illusions

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Honoré de Balzac

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2025-02-24

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English

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Description When David Séchard comes of age, his father wants to sell him his printing press business for three times what it’s worth; David, as generous as his father is miserly, agrees to the price because he loves his father. David soon runs across an old school chum, Lucien, and his sister Eve. Lucien is strikingly handsome, with ambitions to be a poet. Both David and Eve become devoted to doing whatever it takes to help Lucien succeed, and, while doing so, they fall in love. With a ruthless competitor in town trashing his reputation and drastically reducing his income, an exorbitant rent and debt payment to his father, and a new wife, David struggles to make ends meet. He soon pins his hopes on inventing a new process to create paper more...

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Parisians in the Country

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Honoré de Balzac

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2025-06-04

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English

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Balzac’s more humorous episodes.

In “The Muse of the Department,” a “superior..." data-title="Книга Parisians in the Country">

Description Parisians in the Country consists of, as the name implies, two stories of Parisians and their interactions and experiences in the French provinces. Gaudissart is a traveling salesman, well-known, well-respected, and universally considered to be one of the best—hence his nickname of “Gaudissart the Great.” As he enters a small town, he enlists the help of one of the town’s notables. The notable, who’s not as impressed by Gaudissart’s sales pitch as Gaudissart thinks he is, sends Gaudissart to another well-known man of the town, and the resulting encounter is one of Balzac’s more humorous episodes. In “The Muse of the Department,” a “superior...

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Shorts from Scenes from Private Life

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Honoré de Balzac

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2024-10-24

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English

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Scenes from Private Life portion of Balzac’s The Human Comedy represent a cross-section of French culture from the first half of the nineteenth century. There are drawing room intrigues of the rich (“Domestic Peace”), unrequited love (“The Imaginary Mistress”), a romance among the residents of a boarding house (“The Purse”), and even a Corsican vendetta (“The Vendetta”).

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Description The short stories and novellas from the Scenes from Private Life portion of Balzac’s The Human Comedy represent a cross-section of French culture from the first half of the nineteenth century. There are drawing room intrigues of the rich (“Domestic Peace”), unrequited love (“The Imaginary Mistress”), a romance among the residents of a boarding house (“The Purse”), and even a Corsican vendetta (“The Vendetta”). Each of these, as well as the remaining stories in the collection, are marked...

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The Celibates

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Honoré de Balzac

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2025-05-20

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English

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181

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Balzac forms a unit of three unrelated stories concerning bachelors and old maids.

In the first, “Pierette,” a young woman is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, an unmarried brother and sister who view her as a leech on their business earnings and hound her beyond endurance.

In the second, “The Vicar of Tours,” a socially unaware priest who has inherited the furniture, books, and rooms in a lodging house of a fellow priest, is put to grief by his landlord, an elderly unmarried woman who takes her new lodger’s social awkwardness for insults and decides to retaliate.

In the third, “A Bachelor’s Establishment,” a..." data-title="Книга The Celibates">

Description In The Celibates, Balzac forms a unit of three unrelated stories concerning bachelors and old maids. In the first, “Pierette,” a young woman is sent to live with her aunt and uncle, an unmarried brother and sister who view her as a leech on their business earnings and hound her beyond endurance. In the second, “The Vicar of Tours,” a socially unaware priest who has inherited the furniture, books, and rooms in a lodging house of a fellow priest, is put to grief by his landlord, an elderly unmarried woman who takes her new lodger’s social awkwardness for insults and decides to retaliate. In the third, “A Bachelor’s Establishment,” a...

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Ursule Mirouët

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Honoré de Balzac

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2025-02-23

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English

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Description When Doctor Minoret moves to Nemours with a baby girl in tow, his relatives and heirs are alarmed. The seventy-one-year-old doctor is wealthy, and his heirs were already mentally dividing up the spoils amongst themselves. They didn’t want a new candidate for the doctor’s affection interfering with their inheritance. The doctor soon makes friends of the local curé, a retired military man, and the local justice of the peace. Together the men dote on Ursule, the illegitimate daughter of the doctor’s nephew, and bring her up in an unconventional yet loving environment. The heirs, to whom the doctor has made plain he does not care to socialize, continue to fume and fret and scheme. When Ursule becomes a teenager and begins to...

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