Download or read book Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet written by Honore de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pere Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Southern Gentleman written by Jim Booth and published by Watchmaker Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel Randolph Deal is a Southern aristocrat, having the required bloodline, but little of the nobility. A man resistant to the folly of ethics, he prefers a selective, self-indulgent morality. He is a confessed hedonist, albeit responsibly so."--Back cover
Download or read book Old Man Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his only remaining visitors are his two beautifully dressed daughters. Goriot's fate is intertwined with two other fellow boarders: the young social climber Eugene Rastignac, who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves, and the enigmatic figure of Vautrin, who is hiding darker secrets than anyone. Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.
Download or read book Father Goriot written by Honore De Balzac and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the intricate tapestry of Parisian society with Honoré de Balzac’s masterwork, "Father Goriot." This compelling novel unfolds in a boarding house where the lives of its inhabitants intertwine, revealing the stark realities of ambition, love, and sacrifice. As you navigate the streets of 19th-century Paris through Balzac’s vivid prose, you may wonder: What lengths will a father go to for the sake of his daughters? Goriot’s unwavering devotion challenges the reader to reflect on the true nature of familial love amidst the backdrop of social ambition and moral decay. But here’s a provocative question: Is love a currency in a world driven by wealth and status? Balzac's keen observations of human behavior expose the heartache and hypocrisy present in society, inviting readers to ponder the costs of social climbing. With rich character development and a detailed portrayal of Parisian life, "Father Goriot" remains a timeless exploration of the complexities of human relationships, making it essential reading for anyone fascinated by literature and the human condition. Are you prepared to witness the profound depths of sacrifice and ambition through the eyes of Father Goriot? This work is more than just a novel; it’s a journey into the heart of humanity and the societal forces that shape our lives. Don’t miss your chance to experience this literary classic. Will you join Balzac in unraveling the intricate dynamics of love and society? Get your copy of "Father Goriot" now, and immerse yourself in a powerful narrative that resonates through the ages!
Download or read book Old Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Paw Prints. This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene Rastignac, a young law student living in a boarding house, meets fellow lodger, Goriot, a ruined merchant who receives occasional secret visits from his daughters
Download or read book Pere Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with that of a father whose obsessive love leads to personal and financial ruin. "The modern King Lear." ? Leslie Stephen.
Download or read book La Com die Humaine written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Thirteen written by Honore de Balzac and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of three novellas is unified by an overarching motif: in all three tales, a mysterious secret society known as The Thirteen is at work behind the scenes. The men in the group have pledged eternal loyalty to each other, and if any member ever finds himself in peril, it is the sworn duty of the others to come to his aid. Honore de Balzac uses this premise as a device to explore a wide range of topics, including clashes between different classes of society, doomed romances, and intrigue driven by greed.
Download or read book Balzac s Lives written by Peter Brooks and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac's Lives illuminates the writer's life, era, and work in a completely original way. Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and Oscar Wilde went so far as to say that Balzac had invented the nineteenth century. But it was above all through the wonderful, unforgettable, extravagant characters that Balzac dreamed up and made flesh—entrepreneurs, bankers, inventors, industrialists, poets, artists, bohemians of both sexes, journalists, aristocrats, politicians, prostitutes—that he brought to life the dynamic forces of an era that ushered in our own. Peter Brooks’s Balzac’s Lives is a vivid and searching portrait of a great novelist as revealed through the fictional lives he imagined.
Download or read book Vautrin written by Honore de Balzac and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vautrin by Honore de Balzac
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Balzac written by Owen Heathcote and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the founders of literary realism and the serial novel, Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a prolific writer who produced more than a hundred novels, plays and short stories during his career. With its dramatic plots and memorable characters, Balzac's fiction has enthralled generations of readers. 'La Comédie humaine', the vast collection of works in which he strove to document every aspect of nineteenth-century French society, has influenced writers from Flaubert, Zola and Proust to Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. This Companion provides a critical reappraisal of Balzac, combining studies of his major novels with guidance on the key narrative and thematic features of his writing. Twelve chapters by world-leading specialists encompass a wide spectrum of topics such as the representation of history, philosophy and religion, the plight of the struggling artist, gender and sexuality, and Balzac's depiction of the creative process itself.
Download or read book Pere Goriot written by Honore Balzac and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the simple and proper old brownstone New York, low in style but high in principle, and the achingly beautiful but decadent Saint-Germain district of Paris. The issue is seamlessly joined.
Download or read book Madame de Treymes Illustrated written by Edith Wharton and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American in Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, John Durham pays court to an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive. Devoutly Catholic, Fanny's husband is unlikely to grant her a divorce or relinquish custody of their young son, who is heir to the family title
Download or read book Balzac Old Goriot written by David Bellos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-11-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of the novel's composition, structure and achievement provides readers with detailed literary and historical background and an explanation of how Balzac challenged prevailing expectations of the novel.
Download or read book The Man Without a Face written by Isabelle Holland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1987-06-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles didn't know much about life ... until he met The Man Without a Face "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him ...... Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed ""The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love. ‘Not much affection had come Charles’s way until the summer he was fourteen, when he met McLeod [a man whose face was deeply scarred] and learned that love has many facets.’ —BL. ‘A highly moral book, powerfully and sensitively written; a book that never loses sight of the human." —H. 1972 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970-1983 (ALA) Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)
Download or read book Pere Goriot Owc written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this translation includes a full editorial apparatus.
