Author:Honore de Balzac

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Droll Stories1

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $2.50

Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 411832

ISBN: 50024189

Binding: Unknown

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Droll Stories 2

By: Balzac, Honore de

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Publisher: August 2013

Seller ID: 411833

ISBN: 56548969

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Pere Goriot

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $4.00

Publisher: BARNES & NOBLE INC: November 2012

Seller ID: 414094

ISBN: 1593082851

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Pere Goriot

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W W NORTON & CO: June 2013

Seller ID: 455193

ISBN: 039397166X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"Responses: Contemporaries and Other Novelists" illustrates Balzac's immense influence on other writers, among them Charles Baudelaire, Hippolyte Taine, mile Zola, and Marcel Proust.

"Twentieth-Century Criticism" presents a superb selection of critical writing about the novel.

The critics include Ernst Robert Curtius, Albert B guin, Erich Auerback, Georges Poulet, Michel Butor, Louis Chevalier, Pierre Barb ris, Peter Brooks, Sandy Petrey, Nicole Mozet, and Janet L. Beizer.
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Eugenie Grandet

By: Balzac, Honore de

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: December 2011

Seller ID: 458193

ISBN: 014044050X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honor de Balzac's Eug nie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eug nie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, he will let no one near them. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eug nie's own desires, her passion brings her int...
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Lost Illusions

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $6.00

Publisher: MODERN LIB: January 2012

Seller ID: 177608

ISBN: 0375757902

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Balzac was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society," wrote George Sand. "He searched and dared everything."

Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzac's ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoul me who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic life. Handsome and ambitious but na ve, Lucien is patronized by the b...
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Old Man Goriot

By: Balzac, Honore de

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP:

Seller ID: 395867

ISBN: 0140449728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of...
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Lost Illusions

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $4.50

Seller ID: 402721

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Physiology of Marriage

By: Balzac, Honore De

Price: $6.50

Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR:

Seller ID: 411694

ISBN: 0801855500

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

It is well known that Balzac had two literary careers--the first, under a pseudonym, writing blood-and-thunder romance novels and the second, under his own name, as the creator of La Comedie Humaine, the vast chronicle of "contemporary life in all its complexity." But, in between these outpourings of fiction, he wrote a work of nonfiction--The Physiology of Marriage--that brought him his first fame as a writer and introduced his now familiar worldview in which passion is held in check by social advantage and blind innocence is the greatest danger to well-being.

As forgotten today as Stendhal...
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Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Signet: December 2004

Seller ID: 433090

ISBN: 0451529596

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"P re Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac's novels," writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac's towering project La Com die Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting "the whole pell-mell of civilization." In P re Goriot, the great novelist probes the "bourgeois tragedy" of money and power from two different directions. While Goriot is willingly reduced to poverty to support his ambitious daughters, an impoverished young...
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Cousin Bette (The Modern Library)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Random House: January 1958

Seller ID: 446022

ISBN: B001CTBHO6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet (Modern Library, 245.1)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $6.50

Publisher: The Modern Library: January 1950

Seller ID: 446024

ISBN: B000K7INHU

Binding: Hardcover

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Old Goriot

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $4.00

Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: November 2013

Seller ID: 449310

ISBN: 0140440178

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Honor de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country, Eug ne de Rastignac.

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Old Goriot

By: Balzac, Honore de

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: November 2013

Seller ID: 449914

ISBN: 0140440178

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Black Sheep

By: Balzac, Honore de

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Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: October 2016

Seller ID: 458046

ISBN: 0140442375

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honor de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career as Napoleon's aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous - but their mother is blinded to his kindn...
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Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics)

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1994

Seller ID: 458072

ISBN: 0140446419

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Cousin Bette: Part One of Poor Relations

By: Balzac, Honore de

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1965

Seller ID: 458150

ISBN: 0140441603

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honor de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics. Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentful of their wealth, when Bette learns that the man she is in love with plans to marry Hortense, she becomes consumed by the desire to exact her revenge...
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