Honore De Balzac
Biographic Data
| ID | 294698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Honore De Balzac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Honore |
| FAMILY NAME | De Balzac |
| SIGNATURE | DE BALZAC H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cousin Bette
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 courte…
The Captain loses the battle
’You won’t meet an old man, or a young man in love,’ he continued after a pause, ‘because you love your daughter too much to subject her to the stratagems of an old rake, and because you, Baroness Hulot, sister of the old Lieutenant-General who...
Josépha
’I’d been a widower for five years,’ continued Crevel, speaking like a man who is going to tell a story, ‘and in the interests of my daughter, whom I idolize, I didn’t want to marry again; and I also didn’t want to have liaisons in...
One woman lost, one woman found
Hulot went home, striding along like a madman, talking to himself; he found his family calmly playing the game of whist for two sous stakes that he had seen them begin. When she saw her husband, poor Adeline thought there must have been some terrible...
The Physiology of Marriage
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The Physiology of Marriage
Cousin Bette
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 courte…
The Captain loses the battle
’You won’t meet an old man, or a young man in love,’ he continued after a pause, ‘because you love your daughter too much to subject her to the stratagems of an old rake, and because you, Baroness Hulot, sister of the old Lieutenant-General who...
Josépha
’I’d been a widower for five years,’ continued Crevel, speaking like a man who is going to tell a story, ‘and in the interests of my daughter, whom I idolize, I didn’t want to marry again; and I also didn’t want to have liaisons in...
One woman lost, one woman found
Hulot went home, striding along like a madman, talking to himself; he found his family calmly playing the game of whist for two sous stakes that he had seen them begin. When she saw her husband, poor Adeline thought there must have been some terrible...
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