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Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the girl with the golden eyes From Honoré de Balzac

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.' Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the dominant theme in the three short works collected in this volume. In Sarrasine an impetuous young sculptor falls in love with a diva of the Roman stage, but rapture turns to rage when he discovers the reality behind the seductiveness of the singer's voice. The ageing artist in The Unknown Masterpiece, obsessed with his creation of the perfect image of an ideal woman, tries to hide it from the jealous young student who is desperate for a glimpse of it. And in The Girl with the Golden Eyes, the hero is a dandy whose attractiveness for the mysterious Paquita has an unexpected origin. These enigmatic and disturbing forays into the margins of madness, sexuality, and creativity show Balzac spinning fantastic tales as profound as any of his longer fictions. His mastery of the seductions of storytelling places these novellas among the nineteenth-century's richest explorations of art and desire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a visceral description of the society and politics of Paris, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers the sex life of the upper class by its raw depiction of the underside of Parisian life. Henri de Marsay is a young, rich man who is nearly devoid of morals and virtue. After he meets Paquita Valdes, a mysterious and beautiful woman, he becomes infested with a deviant lust for her. When his plan to seduce her succeeds, Henri and Paquita maintain an intensely sexual relationship. However, when Henri starts to suspect Paquita is involved with another lover, he becomes overwhelmed with rage and jealousy. As he allows this emotion to cloud his judgement and conscience, Henri’s possessiveness plots a heinous act—immoral even by his questionable standards, leading to shocking discoveries and sick twists. The surprise and awe invoked by Honoré de Balzac’s The Girl with the Golden Eyes ensures a memorable narrative that has won the attention of critics and inspired a 1961 film adaptation. With elements of homosexuality, sexual slavery, incest and violence, The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a lustful tale that remains to be appalling and taboo. With raw and ruthless realism, Honoré de Balzac creates a portrait and reflection of an entire society through the vivid depiction of Paris and the specific amorous vice of the protagonists. While exploring the vices of the Parisian upper class, The Girl with the Golden Eyes also invites reflection on the brutal effects misogyny and ill-intended men have on women, exposing a truth that is still applicable to modern society. Though The Girl with the Golden Eyes has traditionally been published among a collection, this edition of Honoré de Balzac’s work stands alone in the spotlight it has earned. Featuring a brand new, eye-catching cover design and a modern, readable font, this edition of The Girl with the Golden Eyes is accessible to contemporary audiences and encourages conversation on torrid and taboo affairs.

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Honore Balzac
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-02-16
  • ISBN : 9781985257054
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honore Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl with the Golden Eyes By Honore De Balzac La Fille aux yeux d'or (English: The Girl With the Golden Eyes) is a novella by Honor� de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Com�die humaine novel sequence. The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and plots to seduce her. He succeeds but becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover and so plots to murder her. When he arrives to kill her, he discovers that she is already dead by the hand of her lover, his half-sister. She declares that Paquita came from a land where women are no more than chattels, able to be bought and used in any way. In the last lines of the story, de Marsay tells a friend that the girl has died of "something to do with the heart."We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book The Girl With The Golden Eyes   Original Edition

Download or read book The Girl With The Golden Eyes Original Edition written by Honore De Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Girl with the Golden Eyes" is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled "Ferragus" and part two is "The Duchesse de Langeais". The three stories are frequently combined under the title "The Thirteen". It tells the story of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth century Paris caught up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. Henri de Marsay, a young dandy who is obsessed with appearances, a physically beautiful but spiritually empty young man who devotes all his time to the pursuit of sensation and sensual pleasure. He develops a burning lust for the inaccessible golden-eyed girl of the title, Paquita Valdes. He becomes determined to win her love, regardless of whatever, or whoever, stands in his path. If you enjoy the works of Honoré de Balzac then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honore de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honore de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Fille aux yeux d'or (English: The Girl With the Golden Eyes) is a novella by Honor� de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Com�die humaine novel sequence.

Book The Girl With The Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl With The Golden Eyes written by Honore de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl With The Golden Eyes: Translated By Ellen Marriage This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book The Boy with Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Boy with Golden Eyes written by Marjorie Young and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Rupert, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and experience, has been raised in complete isolation from the world by his enigmatic grandparents. His life takes an extraordinary turn when a violent storm uncovers a long-concealed treasure. In the aftermath of the storm, his grandparents vanish. Completely alone, the bewildered boy seizes upon the opportunity to leave his forest home at last. Out in the wider world, Rupert encounters new friends and learns that the kingdom's beloved royal family has been slain by brutal usurpers, who now rule the land with cunning and cruelty. But astonishing revelations convince Rupert that he has a pivotal role in restoring justice to the land. As Rupert and his comrades face imprisonment, bloody skirmishes, desperate conditions, and alluring yet sinister encounters, the darkest moments may reveal astonishing wonders. Unfolding events take on a deeper meaning as Rupert's mysterious gifts guide him toward shattering revelations and truths about his identity and his destiny.

Book Girl with the Golden Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Honoré de Balzac
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-04-26
  • ISBN : 9781717274649
  • Pages : 70 pages

Download or read book Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third part of the trilogy "The Thirteen." First part is entitled "Ferragus" and part two is entitled "The Duchesse de Lengeais." The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and plots to seduce her. Though he succeeds, he becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover, and plots to murder her. When he arrives to kill her, he discovers she's already dead by the hand of her lover - his half-sister. She declares that Paquita came from a land where women are no more than chattels, able to be bought and used in any way. In the last lines of the story, de Marsay laughingly tells a friend that the girl has died of consumption. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Book Reflections in a Golden Eye

Download or read book Reflections in a Golden Eye written by Carson McCullers and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Reflections in a Golden Eye" by Carson McCullers. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Girl with the Golden Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Honore De Balzac
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 9781097308354
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honore De Balzac and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third part of the trilogy "The Thirteen". First part is entitled "Ferragus" and part two is entitled "The Duchesse de Lengeais". The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and plots to seduce her. Though he succeeds, he becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover, and plots to murder her. When he arrives to kill her, he discovers she's already dead by the hand of her lover - his half-sister. She declares that Paquita came from a land where women are no more than chattels, able to be bought and used in any way. In the last lines of the story, de Marsay laughingly tells a friend that the girl has died of consumption.

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century's richest explorations of life and art.

Book The Girl With the Golden Eyes   La Fille Aux Yeux D or

Download or read book The Girl With the Golden Eyes La Fille Aux Yeux D or written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl with the Golden Eyes - La Fille aux yeux d'or by Honore De Balzac. Translated by Ellen Marriage. La Fille aux yeux d'or (English: The Girl With the Golden Eyes) is a novella by Honore de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comedie humaine novel sequence. The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and plots to seduce her. He succeeds but becomes disillusioned when he discovers she is also involved with another lover and so plots to murder her. When he arrives to kill her, he discovers that she is already dead by the hand of her lover, his half-sister. She declares that Paquita came from a land where women are no more than chattels, able to be bought and used in any way. In the last lines of the story, de Marsay laughingly tells a friend that the girl has died of consumption.

Book The Girl With the Golden Eyes

Download or read book The Girl With the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and contorted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity? What is it they want?

Book The Girl with the Golden Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Honoré de Balzac
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-11-18
  • ISBN : 9781731492418
  • Pages : 63 pages

Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-18 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl with the Golden Eyesby Honoré de BalzacLa Fille aux yeux d'or is a novella by Honoré de Balzac. It is the third part of the Thirteen series, which includes the short stories Ferragus and La Duchesse de Langeais. It is also part of his La Comédie humaine novel sequence.