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Un fils d'ébéniste, suite à une brillante carrière militaire est anobli par Napoléon, devenu le comte de Montcornet, il épouse une aristocrate et rachète un domaine en Bourgogne. C'est alors qu'il sera confronté à une ruralité plus rétive que prévu.

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Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Konungens älskarinna, Konnetabelns maka, Flickan från Thilhouze, Vapenbrodern, Kyrkoherden i Azay-Le-Rideau, Läxan, Frans I:s fasta, De kloka nunnorna i Poissy och Huruledes slotter i Azay blev byggt I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist. Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) var en mycket produktiv författare som lade grunden för realismen. Han hör till en av de mest namnkunniga franska författarna och blev känd för sin känsla för detaljer och för sina karaktärsskildringar.

Julie, lebensfroh und willensstark, schlägt die Warnungen ihres Vaters in den Wind und heiratet den Offizier Marquis d'Aiglemont. Doch der Triumph über ihre selbstbestimmte Heirat währt nicht lang. Bald erkennt Julie, dass ihr Ehemann zwar rechtschaffen und zuvorkommend aber auch distanziert und sterbenslangweilig ist. Verzweifelt versucht sie ihrem goldenen Käfig zu entfliehen und findet, inzwischen dreißig Jahre alt, Trost in den Armen des Diplomaten Charles de Vandenesse - eine Affäre mit tödlichen Folgen.

Balzac décrit, avec une cruauté réaliste rarement atteinte, la descente aux enfers du malheureux Sylvain Pons, prototype du parent pauvre, compositeur démodé, pique-assiette attendrissant, génial collectionneur de bric-à-brac, et ami du bon Allemand Schmucke. Autour de ces cœurs purs, il construit une impitoyable galerie de portraits : la portière Cibot, l'Auvergnat Rémonencq, l'avocat marron Fraisier, le "tableaumane" juif Elie Magus.

"Eugenia Grandet", qui fornita nella formidabile traduzione di Grazia Deledda (quasi un romanzo nel romanzo), fu definita da Karl Marx come uno dei migliori affreschi letterari della società borghese di Francia del XIX secolo. Scrittore estremamente prolifico, Balzac ottenne con "Eugenia Grandet" un successo planetario. La lettura è intensa ed incalzante, la traduzione italiana preziosa e trascinante. La storia di Eugenia è ancora estremamente attuale, fonte diflessione e di godimento spirituale.

Œuvre maîtresse de la littérature française du XIXe siècle, à l'exemple du "Rouge et le Noir" et de "Madame Bovary", "Le père Goriot" sera dès sa première édition un immense succès. En scribe de son temps, Balzac y décrit l'intimité de la pension Vauquer, dont les habitants secrètent toutes les humeurs, toutes les ambitions et toutes les amertumes du Paris populaire.

Faut-il manger pour vivre, ou vivre pour manger ? La madeleine de Proust est-elle vraiment celle que l'on croit ? La trompe d'éléphant est-elle comestible ? Vous trouverez réponse à ces épineuses questions, et à bien d'autres, dans notre sélection de 19 textes cultes commentés Une balade littéraire divertissante et instructive à travers les textes de Brillat-Savarin, La Bruyère, Théophile Gauthier, Proust, Zola, Rabelais, Flaubert, Balzac, Maupassant, Molière, Hugo, Huysmans, Pétrone, Daudet, Madame de Sévigné et des Frères Goncourt. Bon appétit ! Textes commentés par Sylvain Trias.

Les Chouans is a gripping historical novel by Balzac, set during the French Revolution. A tale of war, political intrigue, and romance, it follows the conflict between royalist rebels and revolutionaries while exploring themes of loyalty and betrayal.

സമൂഹജീവിതത്തിന്റെ വിവിധ തലങ്ങളെ യഥാതഥമായി ചിത്രീകരിക്കുന്നവയാണ് ബല്‍സാക്കിന്റെ രചനകള്‍. മനുഷ്യസമൂഹത്തെ...

Whilst faith can be practiced anywhere religious faith is usually at a church or temple. The stories in this volume are centered both in houses of worship and with those with a strong association to its calling. Of course, short story authors have a determined belief in their undoubted talents to make us look at this subject from different angles. In this volume they take us on literary journeys that are revealing and challenging yet always entertaining.

In this volume our classic authors turn their words to the religion of Christianity. It’s a fascinating subject for our authors who can explore faith and belief in ways that we rarely subject ourselves to. Whatever your faith these stories raise questions and that are of interest to us all.

Two girls emerge from a convent in order to marry and assume their places in post-Revolutionary French society. Louise is ruled by passion, Renée by pragmatism, and the intimate details of their trials and triumphs are revealed through their correspondence. Letters of Two Brides follows two strong women across the years as they navigate love, friendship, faith, and the conflicting expectations for women in society.

Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes of Private Life,” which is one section of “The Human Comedy,” his great fiction series. A wealthy gentleman wishes to marry a beautiful heiress, whose mother is a Spanish Creole. (In this context, “Creole” refers to a person who is genetically European, but born in a New World colony.) As was common for wealthy families of that time, notaries are hired to negotiate a prenuptial agreement. The details of 19th-century financial arrangements may well seem obscure for modern readers. What remains true throughout...

“The Commission in Lunacy” is a short novel first published in 1836 with the French title “L’interdiction” (i.e., “The Ban” or “The Prohibition”). An aristocratic woman wants the courts to declare her estranged husband mentally incompetent to manage his own affairs. To achieve this, the petition must pass through the hands of an examining judge — a man of old-fashioned integrity and conscience. In this story of Parisian society, we see Balzac developing techniques of rich character portrayal and psychological realism. - Summary by Bruce Pirie

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were published between 1838 and 1847. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. The French title — Splendeurs et misères des courtesanes — literally, Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans — has also been translated as A Harlot High and Low. The story picks up at the end of Lost Illusions (1843), an earlier novel by Balzac. At the end of that book, Lucien ...

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. We meet Lucien Chardon, a young provincial who romantically aspires to be a poet, and his friend David Séchard, who struggles to manage his father’s printing shop and falls in love with Lucien’s sister Ève. The picture of provincial life that emerges is laced with greed, ambition, and duplicity. Balzac’s ...

Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he ...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere. The City of Lights may be one of the glories of the world but for those whose three score and ten have passed it is the final resting place for some of the very finest of literary talents.