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Cousin Bette by Honoré De Balzac
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Vividly bringing to life the rift between the old world and the new, Cousin Bette is an incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of The Human Comedy.
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
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Category: Childrens Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré De Balzac
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Human Comedy Ser.
In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. But when the arrival of her handsome cousin, Charles, awakens Eugenie's desires, her passion brings her into a violent collision with h ...Show more
Le Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac; Andrew Brown (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered ...Show more
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
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, ...Show more
Old Man Goriot by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' 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 ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comedie Humaine. Compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight, they f ...Show more
Ursule Mirouet by Honoré De Balzac
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Category: Classics
In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as 'a remarkable tour de force'. An essentially simple tale about the struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, Ursule Mirouet is chara ...Show more
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