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Colonel Chabert is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–1830) and...

"The marriage contract" is a 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Located in Bordeaux, describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, with the beautiful hereditary Spanish, spoiled, Natalie Evangelista.

Dans le récit cadre, le narrateur raconte à sa compagne, après avoir assisté à un spectacle dans une ménagerie, une histoire qu'il a reçue d'un ancien soldat français de la campagne d'Égypte. Le soldat égaré dans le désert trouve refuge dans une grotte et réussit à apprivoiser une panthère...

"La paz del hogar" es un relato breve que se centra en las relaciones de unos cuantos personajes durante la celebración de una fiesta.

Honorina es una mujer de la alta sociedad que abandonó la seguridad de su matrimonio aburrido  por el amor que le profesaba un hombre no muy respetable. Abandonó todo, incluido el respeto, dinero, la posición, la alegría, la belleza… y aquel hombre la dejó tal como ella hizo con su marido.

Ce document, écrit par Balzac à un moment où il avait du mal à vendre ses romans, se présente comme un mode d'emploi contre le vol et la tromperie. Il est indéniable qu'il s'agit d'un livre de circonstance, dans un genre à la mode à ce moment là. Mais, cela reste du Balzac...

Un jeune peintre prometteur fait une chute dans son atelier et se réveille dans les bras d'une ravissante inconnue, sa voisine. Mais cette idylle naissante est rapidement contrariée par les soupçons qui pèsent sur cette jeune fille et sa mère. Pourquoi un riche vieillard vient-il chaque...

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,  unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots,  and more—move...

In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau...

Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration...

When the night came, he went to the meeting-place, and quietly let himself be blindfolded. Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella—never before published as a stand-alone book—is perhaps the most outlandish thing he ever wrote. While still concerned with the depiction...

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...

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...

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...