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Fans of Romeo and Juliet will delight in the novella „Vendetta”, Honoré de Balzac’s unique take on the timeless theme of star-crossed lovers. This short novel is a story of love and revenge, dealing with the vendetta between two families of Corsican origin, set in early 19th century Paris just after the fall of Napoleon. It relates the tragic fate of Ginevra Piombo, the daughter of proud Corsican immigrants, who has the misfortune of falling in love with another Corsican Lu...

„Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan” is a comic tale about a society woman, a Princess and a Duchess, who attempts to recycle her slightly seedy past by pursuing a minor literary figure of great probity and innocence. The Princess de Cadignan, aka the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, has consorted with such notable Balzac rakes as Henri de Marsay, Maxime de Trailles, and Eugene de Rastignac, but is disconcerted to find herself being stalked by an unknown but comely young man. Th...

In a dark, narrow street in Paris lives an old widow and her pretty young daughter, sit by the window most days. They share a poor but contented existence, supporting themselves through embroidery work. They see a gentleman in a brown coat pass by in the mornings and return in the evenings. The mother always remarks that he appears either over-worked or in delicate health. The daughter ignores most of her remarks as her mother sees every passer-by as a possible protector fo...

An extremely collectible, sweet little book named for and written in honor of Balzac’s mother. Comtesse Honorine de Bauvan was married to the Comte at nineteen. She leaves him and is later abandoned by her lover when she becomes pregnant. She lives simply and earns money by making artificial flowers. What she doesn’t know is that her husband is paying exorbitant prices for her work, thus supporting her while letting her think she is independent of him. The story is perhaps ...

Prior to the twentieth century, philosophy was the driving force behind all literature. Authors used the novel as a means to communicate their ideas on man’s purpose and his place in the universe. With Louis Lambert, however, Balzac takes the idea of the philosophical novel a little too far in giving us this odd, chimerical mashup of philosophical treatise and coming-of-age novel. The novel seems to focus on the life and particularly the thoughts of the genius boy protagoni...

By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of nineteenth-century realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled „The Human Comedy” (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works and 48 unfinished works. The novel „A Start in Life” is part of the „Scenes of Private Life” section of Balzac’s masterpiece. In much of Balzac’s work, the aristocracy is portrayed as vain, duplicitous, and greedy. B...

Tam, gdzie kończy się miłość, zaczyna się małżeństwo. Los kobiety nigdy nie był prosty. Wiara w zauroczenie i naiwność uczuć były głównym nurtem edukacji młodych panien w XIX wieku. Czasem stawały się też jedyną manifestacją wolności... Młoda Julia wychodzi za mąż za Wiktora, przekonana o swojej oraz jego ogromnej miłości. Po ślubie okazuje się, że jej szczęście było tylko iluzją. Jednak obowiązek małżeński rządzi się własnymi prawami, których należy przestrzegać niezależnie...

Jest rok 1799, w Bretanii trwają walki z szuanami. Wobec niepowodzeń ponoszonych przez oddział kierowany przez młodego republikanina Hulota, Joseph Fouché wpada na pomysł schwytania wodza monarchistów, markiza de Montauran zwanego Gars, za pomocą zasadzki. Kluczem do jej powodzenia ma być młoda arystokratka, Maria de Verneuil, która w zamiarze Fouche'a ma rozkochać w sobie legendarnego szuana, a następnie wydać go w ręce republikanów. Wspiera ją w tym ambitny agent policyjny ...

L’histoire dramatique de Lucien de Rübampre, un gentil jeune provincial qui fait ses premiers pas à Paris. Dans une ville où tout est vendu et tout est acheté – carrière et succès, position dans la société, patronage, confiance, amour et amitié. Et une sorte de symbole de ce Paris joyeux, cruel, trompeur et corrompu, sont les déesses de la demi lumière – de belles courtisanes, des dompteurs et des hommes ruineux...

Qu’est-ce qui pourrait être pire lorsqu’un jour, vous réalisez qu’une personne qui semblait toujours amicale et attentionnée vous déteste vraiment avec toutes les fibres de son âme?! C’est avec cela qu’au cours de sa vieillesse, il a rencontré une petite bagatelle ordinaire, de bonne humeur et aimante, qu’il s’agisse d’un feu dans une cheminée ou d’un fauteuil confortable, le vicaire François Biros. Après la mort de son ami l’abbé Chaplu, le rêve de François se réalise – il...

C’est une histoire sur la façon dont, en contractant un mariage inégal, des personnes risquent de se retrouver dans une situation où ce mariage même devient un fardeau et une torture. Balzac raconte l’histoire sans blâmer ni épargner personne. Ici et les parents qui ont vécu une vie vide, ici et Théodore, qui, à la recherche de divertissement chic, jette sa jeune femme dans l’angoisse. Voici Augustine elle-même qui, elle essaie de régler son malheur.

Wonderful tale set in the provincial town of Besançon, and focusing on the de Watteville family – the fiercely religious and independently wealthy wife, the ineffectual husband, who absents himself, spending his days working his lathe and 19-year-old daughter, Rosalie. She falls in love with the mysterious stranger who took up residence a few yards away from her family’s home. Through her maid, herself in love with Savarus’s butler, Rosalie intercepts Savarus’s letters to P...

This is the coming of age story of a young sculptor named Sarrasine and the choices he will face on his journey towards his destiny. We follow Sarrasine as he travels from France to Italy to search for his passion and find the love of his life. The story of Sarrasine is intertwined with that of the beautiful La Zambinella, and Italian singer with whom the young sculptor will fall madly, deeply in love with. From that moment, he was no longer the owner of his thoughts. Howev...

To nie jest opowieść o miłości. To opowieść o rzeczywistości zdominowanej przez ekonomię oraz pieniądze. Paryż, Francja w XIX wieku. To tam rodzi się konflikt pomiędzy wiarą w miłość a materializmem. Eugenia Grandet musi zdobyć się na odwagę, aby bronić prawa do własnych uczuć i decydowania o sobie. Przeciwko sobie ma nie tylko społeczne konwenanse, kulturę i obyczajowość, ale przede wszystkim ojca, którego jedyną miłością jest jego własny majątek. Balzac po raz kolejny two...

Immerse yourself in the inner workings of a quaint French village in this charming novel from Honoré de Balzac, an early master of literary realism. The work was dedicated to Balzac’s brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugene Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Brimming with finely observed details and Balzac’s trademark insight into human motivations and morality, „An Old Maid”, the first book in „The Jealousies of a Country Town”, follows se...

This is one of the three novelettes that are grouped together as „The History of the Thirteen”, along with „Ferragus: Chief of the Companions of Duty” and „The Girl with the Golden Eyes”. The whole notion is that there is a secret society of wealthy gentlemen in Paris called „The Thirteen” which has powers approaching the supernatural. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to...

„Ferragus” is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the „Scenes de la vie parisienne” section of his novel sequence „La Comédie humaine”. It is part of his trilogy „Histoire des treize”: „Ferragus” is the first part, the second is „La Duchesse de Langeais” and the third is „The Girl with the Golden Eyes”. A captivating story about human emotions and relations, set in the year 1820. Balzac narrates the tale of a man who suspects his wife of infideli...

Forget the erroneous title, the central figure of this particular slice of Balzac’s lifelong gift to literature is a woman of character, Madame Veronique Graslin. Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) is considered to be one of the fathers of realism in fiction and has crafted a vivid picture of Europe during the end of the Bourbon Monarchy. The first characters presented are the shopkeeper Sauviat and his family. The daughter, Veronique, is beautiful and charming...