Download or read book The thirteen Father Goriot and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The thirteen Father Goriot The unconscious humorists Parisians in the country written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirteen written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thirteen written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirteen written by and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirteen written by Honore de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Thirteen by Honore de Balzac
Download or read book The thirteen Father Goriot The unconscious humorists Parisians in the country written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Father Goriot and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Honor De Balzac written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Honore De Balzac: The Thirteen, Father Goriot, and Other Stories La Duchesse dc Langeais is, I think, a better story, with more romantic attraction, free from the Objections just made to Ferragus, and furnished with a powerful, if slightly theatrical catastrophe. It is as good as anything that its author has done Of the kind, subject to those general con siderations of probability and otherwise which have been already hinted at. For those who are not troubled by any such critical re ections, both, no doubt, will be highly satis factory. 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 written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Selected Works of Honore de Balzac written by Honore de Balzac and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 19641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics. For what other name could the passer-by give to the Xs and Vs which the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front, outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster? It was evident that every beam quivered in its mortices at the passing of the lightest vehicle. This venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof of which no example will, ere long, be seen in Paris. This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window. This upper story was built of planks, overlapping each other like slates, in order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house. One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth century offered more than one problem to the consideration of an observer. Each story presented some singularity; on the first floor four tall, narrow windows, close together, were filled as to the lower panes with boards, so as to produce the doubtful light by which a clever salesman can ascribe to his goods the color his customers inquire for. The young man seemed very scornful of this part of the house; his eyes had not yet rested on it. The windows of the second floor, where the Venetian blinds were drawn up, revealing little dingy muslin curtains behind the large Bohemian glass panes, did not interest him either. His attention was attracted to the third floor, to the modest sash-frames of wood, so clumsily wrought that they might have found a place in the Museum of Arts and Crafts to illustrate the early efforts of French carpentry. These windows were glazed with small squares of glass so green that, but for his good eyes, the young man could not have seen the blue-checked cotton curtains which screened the mysteries of the room from profane eyes. Now and then the watcher, weary of his fruitless contemplation, or of the silence in which the house was buried, like the whole neighborhood, dropped his eyes towards the lower regions. An involuntary smile parted his lips each time he looked at the shop, where, in fact, there were some laughable details. A formidable wooden beam, resting on four pillars, which appeared to have bent under the weight of the decrepit house, had been encrusted with as many coats of different paint as there are of rouge on an old duchess' cheek. In the middle of this broad and fantastically carved joist there was an old painting representing a cat playing rackets. This picture was what moved the young man to mirth. But it must be said that the wittiest of modern painters could not invent so comical a caricature. The animal held in one of its forepaws a racket as big as itself, and stood on its hind legs to aim at hitting an enormous ball, returned by a man in a fine embroidered coat. Drawing, color, and accessories, all were treated in such a way as to suggest that the artist had meant to make game of the shop-owner and of the passing observer. Time, while impairing this artless painting, had made it yet more grotesque by introducing some uncertain features which must have puzzled the conscientious idler. For instance, the cat's tail had been eaten into in such a way that it might now have been taken for the figure of a spectator—so long, and thick, and furry were the tails of our forefathers' cats. To the right of the picture, on an azure field which ill-disguised the decay of the wood, might be read the name "Guillaume," and to the left, "Successor to Master Chevrel." Sun and rain had worn away most of the gilding parsimoniously applied to the letters of this superscription, in which the Us and Vs had changed places in obedience to the laws of old-world orthography. To quench the pride of those who believe that the world is growing cleverer day by day, and that modern humbug surpasses everything, it may be observed that these signs, of which the origin seems so whimsical to many Paris merchants, are the dead pictures of once living pictures by which our roguish ancestors contrived to tempt customers into their houses. Thus the Spinning Sow, the Green Monkey, and others, were animals in cages whose skills astonished the passer-by, and whose accomplishments prove the patience of the fifteenth-century artisan. Such curiosities did more to enrich their fortunate owners than the signs of "Providence," "Good-faith," "Grace of God," and "Decapitation of John the Baptist," which may still be seen in the Rue Saint-Denis.
Download or read book The Com die Humaine Father Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Honor de Balzac written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deputy Of Arcis written by Honore de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honore de Balzac wrote a novel titled "The Deputy of Arcis" (Le Député d'Arcis), which is a part of his larger literary work known as "La Comédie Humaine." Shortly before he passed away, Balzac finished the book, and it was released after his death in 1854. The story is centred on romantic relationship difficulties, political intrigue, and election manoeuvring. The early 19th-century French political landscape of the Bourbon Restoration serves as the setting for the narrative. It centers on François, the Baron de Watteville, who aspires to be Arcis, a tiny town’s constable. The story delves into the complexities of political campaigns, electoral tactics, and the different coalitions established in an attempt to gain power. Similar to numerous other works by Balzac, "The Deputy of Arcis" offers a perceptive analysis of the politics and society of its era together with a wealth of character development. Balzac's profound comprehension of human nature and his aptitude for analyzing the motives and actions of a wide range of characters are evident throughout the book.
Download or read book Lost Illusions Volume I EasyRead Comfort written by Honoré de Balzac and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost Illusions" is one of the greatest novels in the rich convoy of the "Human Comedy" by Balzac. The story is about a young poet, Lucien Chardon who leaves the outmoded life to seek his success in Paris. He tries to make a name for himself in Paris. This classic will keep you gripped till the very end with its impressive touches.
Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan s Life written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. Excerpt: "In spite of this shapeless wrapper they could watch the most appealing of dramas, that of a woman inspired by a genuine passion. Were she La Torpille, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, or Madame de Serizy, on the lowest or highest rung of the social ladder, this woman was an exquisite creature, a flash from happy dreams. These old young men, like these young old men, felt so keen an emotion, that they envied Lucien the splendid privilege of working such a metamorphosis of a woman into a goddess. The mask was there as though she had been alone with Lucien; for that woman the thousand other persons did not exist, nor the evil and dust-laden atmosphere; no, she moved under the celestial vault of love, as Raphael's Madonnas under their slender oval glory. She did not feel herself elbowed; the fire of her glance shot from the holes in her mask and sank into Lucien's eyes; the thrill of her frame seemed to answer to every movement of her companion. Whence comes this flame that radiates from a woman in love and distinguishes her above all others? Whence that sylph-like lightness which seems to negative the laws of gravitation? Is the soul become ambient? Has happiness a physical effluence?"
Download or read book Scenes from a Courtesan s Life written by Honore de Balzac and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardened criminal Jacques Collin has been hiding under the guise of a false identity in order to escape the long arm of the law. In the novel Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, however, Collin's deceptions seem finally to have caught up with him. Will he be able to pull off the labyrinthine scheme cooked up to secure his freedom?
