UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
La Grande Breteche
Honoré de Balzac
Book Overview:
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 sleepless night.
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 sleepless night.
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
"I was encouraging myself by saying to myself, 'Il bondo cani! Seek!'
"'I am,' he went on, 'notary at Vendome.'
"'I am delighted to hear it, monsieur,' I exclaimed. 'But I am not in a position to make a will for reasons best known to myself.'
"'One moment!' said he, holding up his hand as though to gain silence. 'Allow me, monsieur, allow me! I am informed that you sometimes go to walk in the garden of la Grande Breteche.'
"'Yes, monsieur.'
"'One moment!' said he, repeating his gesture. 'That constitutes a misdemeanor. Monsieur, as executor under the will of the late Comtesse de Merret, I come in her name to beg you to discontinue the practice. One moment! I am not a Turk, and do not wish to make a crime of it. And besides. . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
As the story is about 10 pages long it feels wrong to add this to my challenge but with the pipe-dream of reading the entire La Comédie humaine, I was surprised to find this story (installment 16 in the series) in one of my grandmother's giant old short story volumes. Honestly, this story is quite s
A classic haunted house story in the vein of Poe’s House of Usher regarding a dark family mystery.
This is one of the first and finest Gothic stories I have read. Balzac's description of the house is supreme and left such an impression on my younger senses, I immediately set about trying to mimic him by writing my own miserable failure of a rip-off named The House Beyond My Window.
Leave it to th
Very familiar-feeling... perhaps I've read this before, possibly a different translation? Similar to Edgar Allan Poe in feel - (view spoiler)[ and not just because it's got someone being bricked up and left to die (hide spoiler)].
I'm not at all sure the multiple 'layers' of the story are necessary: At a social gathering, a man t