Honoré de Balzac
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of 'The Thirteen' remain frequently in the background, however, the individual novels are concerned with exploring various forms of desire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyed by suspicion,...
Author
Series
The Human Comedy volume 9
Language
English
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Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in Parisian literary circles of the early nineteenth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pub. Date
[1907], 1992
Language
English
Description
A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience. As with Balzac's other work, his characters in Eugenie Grandet are fully and realistically portrayed. Balzac began to conceive his great work The Human Comedy whilst writing this novel, and the characters herein are reworked in his comedy.
9) Cousin Bette
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
"'Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,' wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully turning their selfish obsessions against them. The novel exemplifies what Henry James described as Balzac's 'huge, all-compassing, all-desiring, all-devouring...
10) Cousin Bette
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Compelled to live under the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives, the Huot family, Cousin Bette's energies are directed towards their destruction.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
An aspiring poet joins a cynical team of journalists in nineteenth-century Paris. When he agrees to write rave reviews for bribes, achieving material success at the expense of his conscience, and soon discovers that the written word can be an instrument of both beauty and deceit.