Honore De: 590 books

Book cover of esther heureuse
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Le secret de cette démarche, tour à tour indolente et pressée, n’est connu que des vieilles femmes et de quelques flâneurs émérites. Dans cet immense rendez-vous, la foule observe peu la foule, les intérêts sont passionnés, le désoeuvrement...
Book cover of The Marriage Contract
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014

A Marriage Contract (French: Le Contrat de mariage) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, it describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, to the beautiful but spoiled Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangelista.
Book cover of L’Ecole des ménages

L’Ecole des ménages

( Edition intégrale )

by Honoré de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Drame bourgeois. M. Gérard un riche négociant s'est pris d'une violente passion pour une jeune fille qui travaille dans sa boutique comme première demoiselle. Il lui laisse diriger sa maison, ce qui provoque évidemment des réactions indignées de sa femme et de ses filles, d'autant plus qu'il...
Book cover of The Unknown Masterpiece
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011

Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic novel. In more than ninety novels, he set forth French society and life as he saw it. He created a cast of over two thousand individual and identifiable characters, some of whom reappear in different novels....
Book cover of The Jealousies Of A Country Town (Mobi Classics)
by Honore de Balzac,Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others. The number of the Valesian tribe is, however, of no consequence...
Book cover of The Duchesse De Langeais
by Balzac Honore de
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006

This engrossing story takes us to a Spanish city in the wake of the French Revolution. The drama unfolds as the central character Duchess de Langeais seeks refuge in a convent. Balzac reveals the vain pretensions of the aristocrats with his signature wit and subtlety. Riveting!
Book cover of Catherine de' Medici
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010

Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a story cycle comprising more than 100 novels and stories. Although most of these works are set in nineteenth-century France, several hearken back to earlier periods. Catherine de' Medici centers on the life of the woman born into an aristocratic family in medieval Italy who went on to become Queen consort and, later, regent of France.
Book cover of A Woman Of Thirty (Mobi Classics)
by Honore de Balzac,Ellen Marriage (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead. It was not yet noon when a luxurious cabriolet, drawn by two spirited horses, turned...
Book cover of The Memoirs of Two Young Wives
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

Two very intelligent, very idealistic young women leave the convent school where they became the fastest of friends to return to their families and embark on their new lives. For Renée de Maucombe, this means an arranged marriage with a country gentleman of Provence, a fine if slightly dull man for...
Book cover of La fausse maîtresse

La fausse maîtresse

( Edition intégrale )

by Honoré de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Tombé sous le charme de Clémentine Laginska, la femme de son meilleur ami, le comte Thaddée Paz n'a pas d'autre solution que de s'inventer une maîtresse pour ne pas succomber à la tentation...
Book cover of La Marâtre

La Marâtre

( Edition intégrale )

by Honoré de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2018

L’image d’un couple modeste mais idéal : Veuf, il avait accepté de l’épouser alors qu’elle était mère. Mais la réalité est toute autre : la marâtre a pris en grippe son beau-fils et n’a d’égards que pour sa fille. Le pauvre garçon de l’homme bien aveugle, doit subir remontrances et coups de sa belle-mère.
Book cover of The Works of Honoré De Balzac
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled, La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered...
Book cover of beatrix
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Auprès de l’église de Guérande se voit une maison qui est dans la ville ce que la ville est dans le pays, une image exacte du passé, le symbole d’une grande chose détruite, une poésie. Ce?e maison appartient à la plus noble famille du pays, aux...
Book cover of l'enfant maudit
by Honore de Balzac
Language: French
Release Date: July 28, 2015

Elle était en proie à de cruelles craintes causées moins par les risques d’un premier accouchement dont s’épouvantent la plupart des femmes, que par les dangers qui a?endaient l’enfant. Pour ne pas éveiller son mari couché près d’elle, la pauvre...
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