Short Stories: Un Episode sous la Terreur (An Episode Under the Terror) and others by Honoré de BalzacThis title comprises three titles:1) Un Episode Sous La Terreur (An Episode Under the Terror)2) Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece)3) Jésus-Christ en Flandre (Christ in Flanders)Un Episode Sous La Terreur (An Episode Under the Terror) is a 1830 story that is part of the Scenes from Political Life (Scènes de la vie politique). It is deemed one of the shorty story masterpieces of Balzac. It is a well-written, and well-constructed story that sets up an atmosphere of suspense and fear right at the start and giving an inkling of the hard life of panic, and mistrust that religious and aristocratic people had to contend with during the years following the revolution.Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece), is a 1831 story that is part of the Philosophical Studies (Etudes Philosophiques). The old master painter Frenhofer has been working on a masterpiece fo the last ten years (La Belle noiseuse). He will finish it with the help of a young painter's lover serving as a model. But surpise awaits all. When offered to illustrate the work, Picasso was so fascinated by the text that he identified with Frenhofer and moved to a studio where the fictional character Frenhofer lived. Jésus-Christ en Flandre (Christ in Flanders), is a 1831 story that is part of the Philosophical Studies (Etudes Philosophiques). Christ appears like figure) to a group of people on a ferry from the Island of Cadzand to Ostend as a passenger. He is denied seating by the rich people on the boat whereas the poor welcome him. The boat capsizes during the trip…About the AuthorHonoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. In 1832, he conceived a project of writing a collection of books that would describe all aspects of society. Originally called Etudes des Mœurs (Study of Mores), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, which became a slice of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon. Honoré de Balzac's attention to detail and realist representation of society earns him the title of one of the founders of realism in European literature. His characters are complex, and not easy to pigeonhole (like real life). He influenced writers such Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino.About This EditionProject Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.Wolf Pup BooksA Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company