Country Doctor, The ('Le Medecin de Campagne'), by Honore de Balzac, belongs to the series known as 'Scenes from Country Life'; a part of his great cycle of fiction, 'The Comedy of Human Life.' It appeared in French in 1833, and in the standard English translation by Miss Wormeley in 1887. It is one of Balzac's noblest pieces of fiction, presenting beautiful traits of human nature with sympathy and power. The scene is laid in a village near Grenoble in France, and the story begins with the year 1829. To this village comes Genestas, a noble old soldier who adores Napoleon, and believes in the...
Country Doctor, The ('Le Medecin de Campagne'), by Honore de Balzac, belongs to the series known as 'Scenes from Country Life'; a part of his great cy...
Petite fille, la Rabouilleuse troublait l'eau des ruisseaux pour que son oncle braconnier peche plus d'ecrevisses. Jeune fille, Flore continue a rabouiller. Elle detourne la fortune d'un vieillard d'Issoudun au profit de son amant. Mais un plus fort survient, qui s'attribuera le produit de la peche, le redoutable Philippe Bridau. Cet ex-lieutenant-colonel de l'armee imperiale, le fils cheri d'Agathe, est devenu un affreux soudard qui mene sa vie privee comme une charge sur un champ de bataille. Ce parvenu dont la route est jonchee de cadavres, deprave par le metier et la famille, les succes...
Petite fille, la Rabouilleuse troublait l'eau des ruisseaux pour que son oncle braconnier peche plus d'ecrevisses. Jeune fille, Flore continue a rabou...
Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes est un roman d'Honore de Balzac publie entre 1838 et 1847 qui fait suite a Illusions perdues. Compose de quatre parties, il met en scene les aspects souterrains de la societe, en explorant le monde du crime et de la prostitution. Le premier est domine par le personnage satanique du forcat evade, Don Carlos Herrera, qui connaitra une forme de redemption sociale dans sa derniere incarnation; le second montre une jeune prostituee, Esther, rachetee par son amour pour Lucien de Rubempre, le poete sans volonte dont l'ambition et la vanite sont les ressorts...
Splendeurs et miseres des courtisanes est un roman d'Honore de Balzac publie entre 1838 et 1847 qui fait suite a Illusions perdues. Compose de quatre ...
Gobseck began as a cabin boy and worked his way up while traveling around the world. He became rich and a miser. His philosophy of never helping anyone because "adversity is the greatest of all teachers" was well known. He also believed that all the peoples of the world were really very much alike because money was the greatest common denominator.
Gobseck began as a cabin boy and worked his way up while traveling around the world. He became rich and a miser. His philosophy of never helping anyon...
Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). It is included in his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comedie humaine (The Human Comedy), which depicts and parodies French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830-1848).
Le Colonel Chabert (English: Colonel Chabert) is an 1832 novella by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799-1850). It is included in his...
