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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

Biographical note

French novelist, one of the creators of Realism in literature. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine) spanned more than 90 novels and short stories in an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in modern bourgeois France.

See also:

• Books and Writers
• Wikipedia
• Balzac, by Frederick Lawton [ read | download ]
• Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet [ read | download ]
• Women in the Life of Balzac, by Juanita Helm Floyd [ read | download ]

Works

The following works are available from Project Gutenberg:

• Droll Stories [ read | download ]
• Droll Stories [ read | download ]
• Droll Stories [ read | download ]
• Petty Troubles of Married Life [ read | download ]
• Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part 2 [ read | download ]
• The Physiology of Marriage [ read | download ]
• The Physiology of Marriage Part 2 [ read | download ]
• The Physiology of Marriage Part 3 [ read | download ]
• Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 1 [ read | download ]
• Repertory of the Comedie Humaine, Pt 2 [ read | download ]

La Comedie Humaine

SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE

• At the Sign of the Cat & Racket [ read | download ]
• The Ball at Sceaux [ read | download ]
• The Purse [ read | download ]
• Vendetta [ read | download ]
• Madame Firmiani [ read | download ]
• A Second Home [ read | download ]
• Domestic Peace [ read | download ]
• The Imaginary Mistress; or Paz [ read | download ]
• A Study of Woman [ read | download ]
• Another Study of Woman [ read | download ]
• La Grande Breteche [ read | download ]
• Albert Savarus [ read | download ]
• Letters of Two Brides [ read | download ]
• A Daughter of Eve [ read | download ]
• A Woman of Thirty [ read | download ]
• The Deserted Woman [ read | download ]
• La Grenadiere [ read | download ]
• The Message [ read | download ]
• Gobseck [ read | download ]
• A Marriage Settlement; or A Marriage Contract [ read | download ]
• A Start in Life [ read | download ]
• Modeste Mignon [ read | download ]
• Beatrix [ read | download ]
• Honorine [ read | download ]
• Colonel Chabert [ read | download ]
• The Atheist's Mass [ read | download ]
• The Commission in Lunacy [ read | download ]
• Pierre Grassou [ read | download ]

SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE

• Ursule Mirouet
• [ read | download ]
• Eugenie Grandet [ read | download ]
• The Celibates:
  • Pierrette [ read | download ]
  • The Vicar of Tours [ read | download ]
• A Bachelor's Establishment
• The Two Brothers [ read | download ]
• The Black Sheep
• Parisians in the Country:
  • Gaudissart the Great; or The Illustrious Gaudissart [ read | download ]
  • The Muse of the Department [ read | download ]
• The Jealousies of a Country Town:
  • The Old Maid [ read | download ]
  • The Collection of Antiquities [ read | download ]
• The Lily of the Valley [ read | download ]
• Lost Illusions:--
  • Two Poets [ read | download ]
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris [ read | download ]
  • Eve and David [ read | download ]

SCENES FROM PARISIAN LIFE

• Scenes from a Courtesan's Life [ read | download ]
  
  • Esther Happy
  • What Love Costs an Old Man
  • The End of Evil Ways
  • Vautrin's Last Avatar
  
  
• A Prince of Bohemia [ read | download ]
• A Man of Business [ read | download ]
• Gaudissart II [ read | download ]
• The Unconscious Humorists or The Unconscious Comedians [ read | download ]
• The Thirteen:
  • Ferragus [ read | download ]
  • The Duchesse de Langeais [ read | download ]
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes [ read | download ]
• Father Goriot [ read | download ]
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau [ read | download ]
• The Firm of Nucingen [ read | download ]
• The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan [ read | download ]
• The Government Clerks
• Bureaucracy [ read | download ]
• Sarrasine [ read | download ]
• Facino Cane [ read | download ]
• Poor Relations:--
  • Cousin Betty [ read | download ]
  • Cousin Pons [ read | download ]
• The Lesser Bourgeoisie [ read | download ]

SCENES FROM POLITICAL LIFE

• The Gondreville Mystery; or An Historical Mystery [ read | download ]
• An Episode Under the Terror [ read | download ]
• The Seamy Side of History: or The Brotherhood of Consolation: [ read | download ]
  
  • Madame de la Chanterie
  • Initiated or The Initiate
  
  
• Z. Marcas [ read | download ]
• The Deputy of Arcis [ read | download ]

SCENES FROM MILITARY LIFE

• The Chouans [ read | download ]
• A Passion in the Desert [ read | download ]

SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE

• The Country Doctor [ read | download ]
• The Village Rector [ read | download ]
• Sons of the Soil [ read | download ]

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES

• The Magic Skin [ read | download ]
• The Quest of the Absolute; or The Alkahest [ read | download ]
• Christ in Flanders [ read | download ]
• Melmoth Reconciled [ read | download ]
• The Hidden Masterpiece [ read | download ]
• The Hated Son [ read | download ]
• Gambara [ read | download ]
• Massimilla Doni [ read | download ]
• The Maranas; or Juana [ read | download ]
• Farewell [ read | download ]
• Adieu [ read | download ]
• The Conscript; or The Recruit [ read | download ]
• El Verdugo [ read | download ]
• A Seaside Tragedy; or A Drama on the Seashore [ read | download ]
• The Red Inn [ read | download ]
• The Elixir of Life [ read | download ]
• Maitre Cornelius [ read | download ]
• Catherine de Medici [ read | download ]
  
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
  
  
• Louis Lambert [ read | download ]
• The Exiles [ read | download ]
• Seraphita [ read | download ]

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