Download or read book Honor De Balzac Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2 Le Pere Goriot perhaps deserves to be ranked as that one of Balzac's novels which has united the greatest number of suffrages, and which exhibits his peculiar merits, not indeed without any of Ins faults, but with the merits in eminent, and the faults not in glaring, degree. It was written (the preface is dated 1834) at the time when his genius was at its very height, when it had completely burst the strange shell which had so long enveloped and cramped it, when the scheme of the Comedie Humaine was not quite finally settled (it never was that), but elaborated to a very considerable extent, when the author had already acquired most of the knowledge of the actual world which he possessed, and when his physical powers were as yet unimpaired by his enormous labor and his reckless disregard of "burning the candle at both ends." Although it exhibits, like nearly all his work, the complication of interest and scheme which was almost a necessity to him, that complication is kept within reasonable bounds, and managed with wonderful address. The history of Goriot and his daughters, the fortunes of Eugene de Rastignac, and the mysterious personality and operations of Vautrin, not only all receive due and unperplexed development, but work upon each other with that correspondence and interdependence which form the rarest gift of the novelist, and which, when present, too commonly have attached to them the curse of over-minuteness and complexity. No piece of Balzac's Dutch painting is worked out with such marvelous minuteness as the Pension Vauquer, and hardly any book of his has more lifelike studies of character. It would, however, not be difficult to find books with an almost, if not quite, equal accumulation of attractions, which have somehow failed to make the mark that has been made by Le Pere Goriot. And the practiced critic of novels knows perfectly well why this is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Novels of Honor De Balzac Vol 2 written by George B. Ives and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English In addition pleasure of dedicating this Scene to you is the gratification afforded to my pride by betraying the secret of your kindness to him who subscribes himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dramatic Works of Honore De Balzac Vol 2 Classic Reprint written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2 According to the respective dates of their production, the drama and the comedy included in this volume are the last ones that came from the pen of the indefatigable novelist. In fact, Balzac never witnessed the "first night" of Mercadet, which was presented at the Theatre du Gymnase Dramatique, on August 24, 1851, i. e., just one year and six days after the death of the great Frenchman. The reader will agree with the professional critics in recognizing, in both these plays, qualities that are lacking, to a certain degree, in the three dramatic efforts contained in Volume I. The action is more compact, the dialogue quicker and livelier, and the climaxes a great deal more satisfactory than in Quinola's Resources, for example. It seems as if the master had realized, to some extent, his deficiencies as a playwright and had forced himself, with his usual energy, to obey more closely the stem requirements of the stage. In our time of "theatre populaire" and "theatre naturaliste" he would have met with a very different welcome. The influence of Scribe and his imitators, all-powerful in those days, has so completely vanished from French literary circles that it seems to have never existed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Novels of Honore de Balzac Vol 2 written by Honore De Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English; Lost Illusions; The Two Poets; A Provincial Great Man in Paris; The Trials of an Inventor Lucien was in his old seat when Lousteau took his; he was the first to bow; they soon engaged in conversation, and to such good purpose that Lucien went to fetch the manuscript of Les Morgueriz'es while Lousteau was finishing his dinner. He had obtained the privilege of submitting his sonnets to the journalist, and relied upon his pompous good will to procure him a publisher or a position on the newspaper. On his return, Lucien saw Daniel in a corner of the restaurant, leaning on his elbows and gazing at him with a melancholy expression; but, being devoured by want and impelled by am bition, he pretended not to see his brother of the club and followed Lousteau. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Honor De Balzac Vol 2 written by G. Burnham Ives and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2: First Time Completely Translated Into English, Physiology of Marriage, Petty Worries of Conjugal Life Unfortunately, we are forced to confess that every woman commits this offence, for her lover is only the leader of her troops, and I do not know that he can be said to belong to her family, unless he hap pens to be her cousin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Novels of Honor De Balzac Vol 2 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2: The Poor Relations, First Episode, Cousin Bette; Pierre Grassou; The Girl With the Golden Eyes What an infernal rascal! Said the baron to himself. This is much like a summons to pay in twenty-four hours on pain of expropriation. Two hours later, just as the baron had finished schooling Claude Vignon, whom he proposed to send to the Department of Justice in search of in formation concerning the judicial functionaries in whose jurisdiction Johann Fischer was, Reine opened the door of his office and handed him a note, requesting an answer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Honor de Balzac Vol 2 of 2 With a Memoir by His Sister Madame de Surville Classic Reprint written by Honore de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence of Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Memoir by His Sister Madame De Surville I cannot preach any longer, for I must go to work; I have so much to do! In the space of a month I have to get through what would take others a year and more. I talk to you about myself, because I hope you will talk to me only of yourself. We can thus exchange our thoughts. I went out yesterday on urgent business, and I saw my two caricatures by Dantan. Send to Susse for them. You will tell me if they are not droll. In a few days I am to sit to an artist, who has asked me to let him take my portrait. I have had the weakness to consent. Is not all this very little? It seems still more so when one has just been raised to heaven among the mystics. That great idea of Woman promised in the preface, which you find so attractive, is half realised. It is called Le Lys dans la Vallée.' Perhaps I deceive myself, but I imagine it will draw forth many tears. I have surprised myself in tears whilst writing it. This work will be the last of the Etudes philosophiques.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Works of Honore De Balzac Vol 2 written by Honore ́ De Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 2: Beatrix; Fame and Sorrow; Colonel Chabert; The Atheists Mass; The Purse; La Granadiere For the last thirty years, however, these pictures Of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on de stroying the creations Of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the artisan. Nowadays we have products, we no longer have works. Public buildings, monuments of the past, count for much in the phenomena Of retrospection but the monuments of modern industry are freestone quarries, saltpetre mines, cotton factories. A few more years and even these old cities will be trans formed and seen no more except in the pages Of this iconography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Honor De Balzac Vol 1 of 2 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Correspondence of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 1 of 2: With a Memoir by His Sister Madame De Surville Non - The Editor thinks that the best Introduction which could be prefixed to Balzac's Letters is this biographical notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Honore De Balzac Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Balzac Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 1 Non - The Editor thinks that the best Introduction which could be prefixed to Balzac's Letters is this biographical notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Works of Honor De Balzac Vol 6 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 6: The Two Brothers, And, Ursula In the Scenes from Military Life so many fine natures, so many high and noble self-devotions will be set forth, that I may here be allowed to point out the depraving effect of the necessities of war upon certain minds who venture to act in domestic life as if upon the field'of battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Works of Honor De Balzac Vol 3 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 3: Two Young Married Women; A Start in Life; Vendetta; Study of a Woman; The Message Tms dedication, dear George, can add nothing to the glory of your name, which will cast its magic lustre on my book; but in making it there is neither modesty nor self-interest on my part. I desire to bear testimony to the true friendship between us; which continues unchanged in Spite of travels and absence, - in Spite, too, of our mutual hard work and the maliciousness of the world. This feeling will doubtless never change. The procession of friendly names which accom pany my books mingle pleasure with the pain and toil their great number causes me; for they are not written without pain and difficulty, to say nothing of the reproach now cast upon me for what is called my alarming fecundity, - as if the world which poses before me were not more fecund stilli Would it not be a fine thing, George, if some antiquary of long past literatures should find in that procession none but noble names, true hearts, pure and sacred friendships, the glories of this century? Ought I not to show myself prouder of that great and certain happiness than of other successes which are not indisputable? To one who knows you well it must ever be a great happiness to be allowed to call'himself, as I do here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Novels of Honore de Balzac written by May Tomlinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Honore De Balzac: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English The tottering walls of this dilapidated house seemed to have been checkered with hieroglyphics. What better name could the chance observer give to the X and V, traced upon the facade by transversal or diagonal pieces of wood, indicated in the white wash by narrow parallel crevices? The lightest carriage in passing by evidently shook every rafter in its mortice. This venerable edifice was surmounted by a tri angular roof whose like will soon become extinct in Paris. Distorted by the inclemency of the Parisian climate this roof projected three feet over the road, as much to screen the threshold of the door from rain as to shelter the wall of an attic, and its window without a sill. This last story was built of planks nailed one over the other like slates, doubtless to prevent the overburdening of this fragile structure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Honor De Balzac in Twenty Five Volumes Vol 2 of 25 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honore De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 2 of 25: The First Complete Translation Into English; A Study of Woman, Another Study of Woman, La Grande Breteche, Peace in the House, the Imaginary Mistress, Albert Savarus, a Woman of Thirty, a Forsaken Lady, La Grenadiere, the Message, Gobseck There Is a good deal of inequality in the present col lection, which contains work conceived in very different manners and executed at very different times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Novels of Honor De Balzac Vol 1 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Novels of Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 1: Now for the First Time Completely Translated Into English If, after we have received the society of Arcis sur-aube every evening for twenty-four years, a single one of our regular habitués should fail us at this crisis! - said the old lady with a threatening expression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Works of Honor de Balzac Vol 2 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Honoré De Balzac, Vol. 2: Béatrix; Fame and Sorrow; Colonel Chabert; The Atheist's Mass; The Purse; La Grenadière The streets are what they were four hundred years ago, with one exception: polmlation no longer swarms there; the social movement is now so dead that a traveller wishing to examine the town (as beau tiful as a suit of antique armor) may walk alone, not without sadness, through a deserted street, where the mullioned Windows are plastered up to avoid the win dow-tax. This street ends at a postern, hanked with a wall of masonry, beyond which rises a bouquet of trees planted by the hands of Breton nature, one of the most luxuriant and fertile vegetations in France. A painter, a poet would sit there silently, to taste the quietude which reigns beneath the well-preserved arch of the postern, where no voice comes from the life of the peaceful city, and where the landscape is seen in its rich magnificence through the loop holes of the case mates once occupied by halberdiers and archers, which are not unlike the sashes of some belvedere arranged for a point of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Honor de Balzac in Twenty Five Volumes Vol 1 of 25 written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Honoré De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 1 of 25: At the Sign of the Cat and Racket; The Sceaux Ball; The Purse; The Vendetta; Madame Firmiani; A Daughter of Eve; Letters of Two Brides IN the very interesting preface, dated July, 1842, which Balzac prefixed to the first collection of the Comédie Eu maine, he endeavors, naturally enough, to represent the di vision into Scenes de la Vie Parisienne, etc., as a rational and reasoned one. Although not quite arbitrary, it was of course to a great extent determined by considerations which were not those of design; and we did not require the positive testimony which we find in the Letters to tell us that in the author's view, as well as in our own, not a few of the stories might have been shifted over from one division to another, and have filled their place just as well in the other as in the one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
