This section of The Human Comdedy, the multi-volume series of stories, tales, and essays that comprised most Honore de Balzac's life's work, focuses on love and marriage as they existed in early ...nineteenth-century Europe. An eclectic collection of essays, satirical observations, short tales, and character sketches, this unique excerpt is an interesting introduction to Balzac's writing.
Catherine de' Medici Balzac, Honore de; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
2010, c2010., 2009-05-01
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Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a story cycle comprising more than 100 novels and stories. Although most of these works are set in nineteenth-century France, several hearken back to earlier periods. ...Catherine de' Medici centers on the life of the woman born into an aristocratic family in medieval Italy who went on to become Queen consort and, later, regent of France.
The crown jewel in a remarkable literary career, Cousin Bette is regarded by many critics to be Balzac's last great work before his death in 1850. A fine example of European realist fiction, the ...story recounts the attempt of a disgruntled housewife to bring about the misery and destruction of her entire extended family. Fans of Tolstoy's War and Peace will enjoy Cousin Bette.
Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau couldn't be more different. One is a cruel man who puts his ruthlessness to good use in a military career, while the other is a kind-hearted, sensitive soul who ...grows up to be a penniless artist. When the family's fortune is at risk, the two diametrically opposed siblings wage an all-out war.
Step back in history through the eyes of one of the masters of European realism. This keenly observed and utterly absorbing account of the period after Napoleon Bonaparte fell from power in ...nineteenth-century France is both an interesting historical document and an engrossing mystery.
Cousin Bette de Balzac, Honoré; Raphael, Sylvia; Bellos, David
1992
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Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of ...violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and official dignitaries.The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes of ironic comedy and the emergence of a younger generation which has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate.This new translation by Sylvia Raphael has an Introduction by David Bellos which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. - ;This new translation has an Introduction which sets the novel in its social, historical, and literary context. -.
Eugenie Grandet Balzac, Honoré de
2009, c2009., 2009-05-01
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The Physiology of Attire Balzac, Honoré de
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Writing in July 1830, Honoré de Balzac comments on the practices of men's fashion in two short essays. In the first, he argues that the cravat is the most important article of clothing that most ...defines the character of a man. Accordingly, he divides men into three principal categories: men without any understanding of the importance of the cravat, perpetuating the eighteenth century; those who copy others, lacking originality; as opposed to the "privileged mortals" who follow neither master nor model. In the second essay, Balzac rejects the addition of buckram to men's clothing and argues for the versatility and natural grace afforded by unpadded coats. He identifies and critiques a "certain stiffness" in the varied forms of artistic expressions at the time.
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