This is such a sweet story in the end. I was expecting the worst outcome for the young artist and his neighbours.

Bluff ?

Le jeune peintre Hippolyte Schinner fait une chute dans son atelier, et se réveille dans les bras d'une ravissante inconnue, sa voisine. Adélaïde de Rouville et sa mère soignent le jeune homme. Hippolyte trouve alors dans leur appartement une chaleur et une amitié agréable, mais aussi une mis

La Bourse by Honore de Balzac – Thank You Bernard, talented volunteer who reads the first sections of La Comedie Humaine
10 out of 10

Since the pandemonium created by the…pandemic, we may be more than interested in La Bourse, though not in the sense the term is used in this third part of La Comedie Hu

Another entry from the Scenes From Private Life section of Balzac's Human Comedy, The Purse follows the emotional struggles of a young artist who falls (literally, it seems) for a young attractive neighbor, but finds himself torn by guilt and suspicion. Elements of class bias and the presumptive jud

"en mi soledad he visto
cosas muy claras
que no son verdad"

(Antonio Machado)

Bela e ainda romântica narrativa curta sobre o amor entre um jovem pintor e uma jovem filha de uma baronesa arruinada, com pequenas e delicadas peripécias, ultimadas por um happy end. A peripécia é interessante, mas o de qu

Oh if only the world consisted of kindly hearted people! This is such a heart-warming story.