The Drama of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Walter Scott Hastings
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 176
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Author: Walter Scott Hastings
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: 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: Honoré de Balzac
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Published: 1901
Total Pages: 632
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 406
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 3734089476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original: Vautrin by Honore de Balzac
Author: Walter Scott Hastings
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 172
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Published: 1896
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Honore De Balzac
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-04-07
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781093125924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow even a desired and socially brilliant marriage can lead a young girl to misfortune. How a young mother resists an adulterous passion, but sinks into grief. How a young woman in all the splendour of her maturity rediscovers the taste for love and then finds herself punished in the tragic fate of her own children. That's the plot of the novel.
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018-09-27
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781727357745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin) is set in early 19th-century Paris and tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. Although the novel uses fantastic elements, its main focus is a realistic portrayal of the excesses of bourgeois materialism. Balzac's renowned attention to detail is used to describe a gambling house, an antique shop, a royal banquet, and other locales. He also includes details from his own life as a struggling writer, placing the main character in a home similar to the one he occupied at the start of his literary career. The central theme of La Peau de chagrin is the conflict between desire and longevity. The magic skin represents the owner's life-force, which is depleted through every expression of will, especially when it is employed for the acquisition of power. Ignoring a caution from the shopkeeper who offers him the skin, the protagonist greedily surrounds himself with wealth, only to find himself miserable and decrepit at the story's end. (source: Wikipedia)