About Honoré de Balzac
Honore de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 and died in 1850. Celebrated as one of the greatest French writers of the nineteenth century, in particular for his work La Comedie Humaine, He is best known for and credited with the invention of the modern realist novel. In more than ninety novels he set forth French society and life as he saw it. W Somerset Maugham said, 'I suppose Balzac is the greatest novelist who ever lived'.
Series
Human Comedy
6. History of the 13 (1896)
7. The Old Maid. Cabinet of Antiquities (1898)
9. Physiology of Marriage: Petty Worries of Conjugal Life (1900)
Illustrious Gaudissart: Muse of the Department (1898)
Celibates: Pierrette. Cure De Tours. La Robouilleuse (1899)
6. History of the 13 (1896)
7. The Old Maid. Cabinet of Antiquities (1898)
9. Physiology of Marriage: Petty Worries of Conjugal Life (1900)
Illustrious Gaudissart: Muse of the Department (1898)
Celibates: Pierrette. Cure De Tours. La Robouilleuse (1899)
Novels
The Quest of the Absolute (1834)
Seraphita (1834)
Melmoth Reconciled (1835)
La Rabouilleuse (1840)
Illusions perdues (1843)
The Philosopher's Stone (1844)
La Cousine Bette (1846)
Le Cousin Pons (1847)
About Catherine d'Medici (1900)
Eugenie Grandet (1914)
Pere Goriot (1950)
Cousin Bette (1965)
Lost Illusions (1976)
The Black Sheep (1976)
The Wild Ass's Skin (1977)
The Unknown Masterpiece (1983)
Old Goriot (1987)
The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1989)
The Lily of the Valley (1989)
A Woman of Thirty (2001)
Seraphita (1834)
Melmoth Reconciled (1835)
La Rabouilleuse (1840)
Illusions perdues (1843)
The Philosopher's Stone (1844)
La Cousine Bette (1846)
Le Cousin Pons (1847)
About Catherine d'Medici (1900)
Eugenie Grandet (1914)
Pere Goriot (1950)
Cousin Bette (1965)
Lost Illusions (1976)
The Black Sheep (1976)
The Wild Ass's Skin (1977)
The Unknown Masterpiece (1983)
Old Goriot (1987)
The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1989)
The Lily of the Valley (1989)
A Woman of Thirty (2001)
Collections
Anthologies containing stories by Honoré de Balzac
A Century of Creepy Stories (1934)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France (1973)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume Two (1989)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
A Century of Horror (1971)
Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France (1973)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume Two (1989)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1993)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
Short stories
| The Elixir of Life (1830) | |||
| The Red Inn (1831) | |||
| The Thing at Ghent (1900) | |||
| El Verdugo | |||
| An Episode Under the Terror | |||
| La Grande Breteche | |||
| The Mysterious Mansion |
Books about Honoré de Balzac
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