Balzac as Lover
Author: Henry Bordeaux
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 36
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Author: Henry Bordeaux
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Honoré de Balzac
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-03
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Love in a Mask" by Honoré de Balzac is a romance novel. The story revolves around a young charming Sixth Horse captain, Léon de Préval. One night, while attending a ball on Mardi Gras eve, he meets a well-dressed masked woman. She turns out to be a recent widow who's enjoying her freedom. The woman has a bad experience in married life. Léon tries to uncover her identity, but she won't let him. The two decide to meet a second time but the woman is again in a mask. For the third time, she agrees to meet one more time but only if he fulfills her conditions...
Author: Anka Muhlstein
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2012-02-14
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1590514742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, Balzac’s Omelet invites you to taste anew Balzac’s genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.
Author: Peter Brooks
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1681374501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.
Author: Jim Booth
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780972178600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Author: Emily Temple
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0008332703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘A psychologically smart debut that swathes teen desire and friendship in mystery and mirth’ Observer ‘Like a twisted Malory Towers or maybe a cosmic version of ‘Heathers’’ Daily Mail ‘Funny, whip-smart and transcendently wise’ Jenny Offill ‘The love child of Donna Tartt and Tana French’ Chloe Benjamin
Author: Sijie Dai
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 037541309X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths. Their meager distractions include a violin—as well as, before long, the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. But it is when the two discover a hidden stash of Western classics in Chinese translation that their re-education takes its most surprising turn. While ingeniously concealing their forbidden treasure, the boys find transit to worlds they had thought lost forever. And after listening to their dangerously seductive retellings of Balzac, even the Little Seamstress will be forever transformed. From within the hopelessness and terror of one of the darkest passages in human history, Dai Sijie has fashioned a beguiling and unexpected story about the resilience of the human spirit, the wonder of romantic awakening and the magical power of storytelling.
Author: Honore De Balzac
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stefan Zweig
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Published: 2019-08-09
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKZweig devoted ten years of research and writing to Balzac, which he regarded as his crowning achievement. This late work reads like a picaresque novel, with Balzac’s quest for “a woman with a fortune” and recurrent episodes of the author chasing an elusive pot of gold driving the story. This biography of one classic author by another is filled with Zweig’s characteristic psychological insights. He portrays the energy and “exuberance of imagination” that produced some two thousand characters in La comédie humaine, as well as the daily details of the coffee-chugging writer’s life, his manic writing schedule, method of correcting proofs, dealing with publishers and reviewers, signing contracts, doing marketing and publicity. Balzac blends biography and literary history in a highly readable volume that will teach you French cultural history as you laugh out loud. “[Balzac] is sure to entertain, instruct and charm ... It is a work of art, ... alive with the teeming life of its model ... It is true both to facts and to the more elusive psychological and spiritual truth of a man who ... has remained one of the most mysterious of great creators.” – Henri Peyre, Sterling professor of French Literature, Yale University, The New York Times