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Honoré de Balzac

  • Cousin Betty | Honoré de Balzac

    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...

  • Modeste Mignon | Honoré de Balzac

    Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal with the matter". Ernest answers Modeste's letters...

  • The Elixir of Life | Honoré de Balzac

    Grand Duke Bartolommeo Belvidero is ninty years old and living in the princely palace at Ferrara, Italy, with the young and handsome Don Juan Belvidero, the son of his old age. Don Juan occupies the lively rooms of the palace and fills it with lovely women resplendent in gems and luxurious...

  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes | Honoré de Balzac

    "Give me a feast such as men give when they love," she said, "and whilst I sleep, slay me..."

    Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the...

  • Sarrasine | Honoré de Balzac

    This tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As one of the “fathers of realism” Balzac painted with his words a vivid portrait of life in the swirling salons of Europe at the end of the Bourbon monarchy, and we follow Sarrasine from...

  • The Vicar of Tours | Honoré de Balzac

    Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an investigative journalist, in 1831 Balzac published his Vicar of Tours. There too, a mild-mannered priest becomes the prey of powerful enemies,...

  • La Grande Breteche | Honoré de Balzac

    La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table. This one, given to the guests at about two in the morning, is tale of marital infidelity and revenge,and perhaps might have given some of the audience a...

  • The Red Inn | Honoré de Balzac

    Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution.

  • Eve and David | Honoré de Balzac

    Ève and David is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy, we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the...

  • Scenes from a Courtesan's Life | Honoré de Balzac

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. At the end of...

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