IntroductionNote on the TextTranslator's NoteSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Honoré de BalzacMap: Paris in 1830--The Wild Ass's SkinAppendix: Balzac's Preface to the First Edition, August 1831Explanatory Notes
bookshelves: published-1842, spring-2015, e-book, gutenberg-project, group-read, france, series, classic, ipad Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Dagny Read from May 07 to 28, 2015 Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David WidgerTranslator: Katharine Prescott WormeleyMissing from the Gutenberg fr...
Introduction--El Verdugo--Domestic Peace--A Study in Feminine Psychology--An Incident in the Reign of Terror--The Conscript--The Red Inn--The Purse--La Grande Bretèche--A Tragedy by the Sea--The Atheist's Mass--Facino Cane--Pierre GrassouChronologyFurther Reading
This is the second novel that I have read by Balzac. I appreciate Balzac as a necessary precursor of some of my favorite novelists, particularly Zola. Balzac is very much a proto-Zola, but I have to say that I do not love him in the same way.The novel is like King Lear in that it is all about the ...
bookshelves: summer-2014, series, france, fradio, radio-4, published-1833, filthy-lucre, lifestyles-deathstyles, play-dramatisation, suicide, translation, love, lit-richer, cousin-love, families Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from July 30 to August 05, 2014 Classic Serialhttp://www.bbc...
bookshelves: published-1846, france, winter20092010, classic, fraudio, revenge Read in January, 2010 - James Waring, Translator- Unabridged- 12 Tapes = 17 Hrs. 30 Mins- Blackstone Audiobooks- January 2000BLURB - “Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, s...
An interesting little story, which indirectly continues the tale started in Father Goriot. While the main theme in the story is avarice, there is a thin thread of continuity that touches upon the fate of Mme. de Restaud and her children, shedding new light on what happened after her father's, M. Gor...
The Unknown Masterpiece - Balzac mixes fact with fiction in this tale of a mythical artistic genius named Frenhofer. It is a tale that plays on artistic conventions and the changes of style from past and present...what’s deemed acceptable or objectionable in art. What I found interesting is Balzac’s...
At first glance, the English translation of the title might seem somewhat of a misnomer. Essentially, this work is a collection of four separate volumes that are essentially loosely joined together through one central theme and figure, i.e. the infamous Jacques Collin and his string of aliases from ...
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