Honore de Balzac

Seven more excursions into the Napoleonic world through the pen of a master Honore de Balzac was quite literally a child of the Napoleonic age. Born in 1799 he grew to be one of the most highly regard...

Four essential stories from the authentic pen of the age of Revolution, Consulate and Empire Honore de Balzac was quite literally a child of the Napoleonic age. Born in 1799 he grew to be one of the m...

Honora de Balzac is the narrator of this novel about Louis Lambert, a child prodigy. Balzac and Lambert are portrayed as students in Paris. They are both social outcasts who develop a love of philosop...

In The Duchesse of Langeais, Honore De Balzac tells us the story of an ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a Napoleonic war hero. The depth of character is astonishing and the writi...

A Classic Novel of Family, Fortune, and Avarice Eugenie Grandet is Honoré de Balzac's classic novel of family tyranny, provincial wealth, disappointed love, and the moral cost of avarice. Set in the French town of Saumur, the novel centres on Eugén

Père Goriot is one of Honoré de Balzac's central novels and a defining work of nineteenth-century French realism. Set in a shabby Paris boarding house, the novel brings together the ruined and devoted...

Honoré de Balzac's masterful portrait of ambition, corruption, literary culture, and social ambition stands among the defining novels of nineteenth-century French literature. In Lost Illusions , Balza

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is part of the History of the Thirteen trilogy written by Honora de Balzac. Balzac was the first writer to write about the social scene France. The introduction tells of ...