Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Edition Definitive of the Comédie Humaine: A woman of thirty. The deserted mistress
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe édition définitive of the Comédie humaine: A woman of thirty. The deserted mistress
Author: Honoré de BalzacEdition Definitive of the Comédie Humaine: A passion in the desert. An episode under the reign of terror. A dark affair
Author: Honoré de BalzacEdition Definitive of the Comédie Humaine: The magic skin
Author: Honoré de BalzacEdition Definitive of La Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Belly of Paris
Author: Émile ZolaPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
Eugénie Grandet
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Dutton Books
ISBN: 9780460001694
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie humaine. The Grandet household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless. Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose cunning and financial success are matched against her determination to rebel. Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous fictional document of its age. Book jacket.
Our Lady of the Flowers
Author: Jean GenetPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802194249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The shattering novel of underground life the New York Times called “a cry of rapture and horror . . . the purest lyrical genius.” Jean Genet’s debut novel Our Lady of the Flowers, which is often considered to be his masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. A semi- autobiographical account of one man’s journey through the Paris demi-monde, dubbed “the epic of masturbation” by no less a figure than Jean-Paul Sartre, the novel’s exceptional value lies in its exquisite ambiguity.
Author: Honoré de Balzac