Honore de Balzac

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 teache...

The fjords of Norway create an enchanting setting for this story. Seraphita is an angel, both half-man and half-woman. The metaphysical plot involves two mortals who are in love with Seraphita, but th...

Ursula was written in 1842 and is part of Scenes from Provincial Life, which is a part of the larger work The Comedy Human. The story depicts the struggle of the lower class to obtain wealth and power...

Balzac's literary output began with chronicles and sketches on widely varied social and artistic topics. The journals to which he contributed were increasingly looking for short fiction, which Balzac ...

It was you who led me to understand the marvelous framework of ideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only work which the moderns can place by that of Homer. Till I heard you, the D...

Honore de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses t...

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses t...

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses t...