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The Comedie Humaine And Its Author With Translations From The French Of Balzac
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Book Synopsis The Comédie Humaine and its author, with translations from the French of Balzac by : H. H. Walker
Download or read book The Comédie Humaine and its author, with translations from the French of Balzac written by H. H. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comedie Humaine and Its Author by : H. H. Walker
Download or read book The Comedie Humaine and Its Author written by H. H. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Comédie Humaine by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Comédie Humaine written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comedie humaine and its author by : H. H. Walker
Download or read book The Comedie humaine and its author written by H. H. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Comédie humaine and its author by : H. H. Walker
Download or read book The Comédie humaine and its author written by H. H. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Magic Skin (French Literature Classic) by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book The Magic Skin (French Literature Classic) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young man named Raphaël de Valentin wagers his last coin and loses, then proceeds to the river Seine to drown himself. On the way, however, he decides to enter an unusual shop and finds it filled with curiosities from around the world. The elderly shopkeeper leads him to a piece of shagreen hanging on the wall. It is inscribed with "Oriental" writing; the old man calls it "Sanskrit", but it is imprecise Arabic. The skin promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking slightly upon the fulfillment of each desire. The shopkeeper is willing to let Valentin take it without charge, but urges him not to accept the offer. Valentin waves away the shopkeeper's warnings and takes the skin, wishing for a royal banquet, filled with wine, women, and friends. He is immediately met by acquaintances who invite him to such an event; they spend hours eating, drinking, and talking. But his actions must meet consequences. For each wish granted, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy.
Book Synopsis The Country Doctor by : Honore de Balzac
Download or read book The Country Doctor written by Honore de Balzac and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugenie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than inLe Medecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of the book in each case, is, let it be repeated, a valid argument against those who would have it that there was something essentially sinister both in his genius and his character. Le Medecin de Campagne was an early book; it was published in 1833, a date of which there is an interesting mark in the selection of the name "Evelina," the name of Madame Hanska, whom Balzac had just met, for the lost Jansenist love of Benassis; and it had been on the stocks for a considerable time. It is also noteworthy, as lying almost entirely outside the general scheme of the Comedie Humaine as far as personages go. Its chief characters in the remarkable, if not absolutely impeccable, repertoire of MM. Cerfberr and Christophe (they have, a rare thing with them, missed Agathe the forsaken mistress) have no references appended to their articles, except to the book itself; and I cannot remember that any of the more generally pervading dramatis personae of the Comedy makes even an incidental appearance here. The book is as isolated as its scene and subject—I might have added, as its own beauty, which is singular and unique, nor wholly easy to give a critical account of. The transformation of the cretin-haunted desert into a happy valley is in itself a commonplace of the preceding century; it may be found several times over in Marmontel's Contes Moraux, as well as in other places. The extreme minuteness of detail, effective as it is in the picture of the house and elsewhere, becomes a little tedious even for well-tried and well-affected readers, in reference to the exact number of cartwrights and harness-makers, and so forth; while the modern reader pure and simple, though schooled to endure detail, is schooled to endure it only of the ugly. The minor characters and episodes, with the exception of the wonderful story or legend of Napoleon by Private Goguelat, and the private himself, are neither of the first interest, nor always carefully worked out: La Fosseuse, for instance, is a very tantalizingly unfinished study, of which it is nearly certain that Balzac must at some time or other have meant to make much more than he has made; Genestas, excellent as far as he goes, is not much more than a type; and there is nobody else in the foreground at all except the Doctor himself. It is, however, beyond all doubt in the very subordination of these other characters to Benassis, and in the skilful grouping of the whole as background and adjunct to him, that the appeal of the book as art consists. From that point of view there are grounds for regarding it as the finest of the author's work in the simple style, the least indebted to super-added ornament or to mere variety. The dangerous expedient of a recit, of which the eighteenth-century novelists were so fond, has never been employed with more successful effect than in the confession of Benassis, at once the climax and the centre of the story. And one thing which strikes us immediately about this confession is the universality of its humanity and its strange freedom from merely national limitations. To very few French novelists—to few even of those who are generally credited with a much softer mould and a much purer morality than Balzac is popularly supposed to have been able to boast—would inconstancy to a mistress have seemed a fault which could be reasonably punished, which could be even reasonably represented as having been punished in fact, by the refusal of an honest girl's love in the first place. Nor would many have conceived as possible, or have been able to represent in lifelike colors, the lifelong penance which Benassis imposes on himself. The tragic end, indeed, is more in their general way, but they would seldom have known how to lead up to it.
Book Synopsis Comedie Humaine - History of Thirteen by : Honore de Balzac
Download or read book Comedie Humaine - History of Thirteen written by Honore de Balzac and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume of short stories which, in the first complete edition of the Comedie, opens with Les Marana, contains, with that in which La Recherche de l'Absolu leads off, the very finest productions of the author on a small scale; and they now appear together, La Recherche excepted. Almost all the pieces herein contained were early work, written when Balzac was under the combined excitement of his emergence from the valley of the shadow in which he had toiled so long, and of the heat and stress of the political and literary Revolution of 1830...
Book Synopsis La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac by : Honore De Balzac
Download or read book La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac written by Honore De Balzac and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Maitre Cornelius by : Honore de Balzac
Download or read book Maitre Cornelius written by Honore de Balzac and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER I. A CHURCH SCENE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY In 1479, on All Saints' day, the moment at which this history begins, vespers were ending in the cathedral of Tours. The archbishop Helie de Bourdeilles was rising from his seat to give the benediction himself to the faithful. The sermon had been long; darkness had fallen during the service, and in certain parts of the noble church (the towers of which were not yet finished) the deepest obscurity prevailed. Nevertheless a goodly number of tapers were burning in honor of the saints on the triangular candle-trays destined to receive such pious offerings, the merit and signification of which have never been sufficiently explained. The lights on each altar and all the candelabra in the choir were burning. Irregularly shed among a forest of columns and arcades which supported the three naves of the cathedral, the gleam of these masses of candles barely lighted the immense building, because the strong shadows of the columns, projected among the galleries, produced fantastic forms which increased the darkness that already wrapped in gloom the arches, the vaulted ceilings, and the lateral chapels, always sombre, even at mid-day. The crowd presented effects that were no less picturesque. Certain figures were so vaguely defined in the "chiaroscuro" that they seemed like phantoms; whereas others, standing in a full gleam of the scattered light, attracted attention like the principal heads in a picture. Some statues seemed animated, some men seemed petrified. Here and there eyes shone in the flutings of the columns, the floor reflected looks, the marbles spoke, the vaults re-echoed sighs, the edifice itself seemed endowed with life. The existence of Peoples has no more solemn scenes, no moments more majestic. To mankind in the mass, movement is needed to make it poetical; but in these hours of religious thought, when human riches unite themselves with celestial grandeur, incredible sublimities are felt in the silence; there is fear in the bended knee, hope in the clasping hands. The concert of feelings in which all souls are rising heavenward produces an inexplicable phenomenon of spirituality. The mystical exaltation of the faithful reacts upon each of them; the feebler are no doubt borne upward by the waves of this ocean of faith and love. Prayer, a power electrical, draws our nature above itself. This involuntary union of all wills, equally prostrate on the earth, equally risen into heaven, contains, no doubt, the secret of the magic influences wielded by the chants of the priests, the harmonies of the organ, the perfumes and the pomps of the altar, the voices of the crowd and its silent contemplations. Consequently, we need not be surprised to see in the middle-ages so many tender passions begun in churches after long ecstasies,—passions ending often in little sanctity, and for which women, as usual, were the ones to do penance. Religious sentiment certainly had, in those days, an affinity with love; it was either the motive or the end of it. Love was still a religion, with its fine fanaticism, its naive superstitions, its sublime devotions, which sympathized with those of Christianity.
Book Synopsis La Comedie Humaine of Honore de Balzac by : Honore De Balzac
Download or read book La Comedie Humaine of Honore de Balzac written by Honore De Balzac and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis La Comédie Humaine by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book La Comédie Humaine written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Country Doctor by : Honoré De Balzac
Download or read book The Country Doctor written by Honoré De Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes From Country Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
Download or read book Père Goriot written by Honoré de Balzac and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of nineteenth-century French society is accompanied by nineteenth- and twentieth-century criticism.
Book Synopsis A Woman of Thirty by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book A Woman of Thirty written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Book Jungle. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Comedie Humaine was written between 1799 and 1850. This collection contains 95 novels, stories, and essays. A Woman of Thirty is composed of six separate stories. Early Mistakes; II. Hidden Griefs; III. At Thirty Years; IV. The Finger of God; V. Two Meetings; and VI. The Old Age of a Guilty Mother. In 1842 Balsac changed the names of the characters in these stories so that the adventures would be attributed to the same person. Julie is the linking character in all six stories. A Woman of Thirty is located in the Scenes de la Vie Privee of the Comedie Humaine.
Book Synopsis Pere Goriot (Owc) by : Honoré de Balzac
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.
Download or read book Bureaucracy written by Honoré De Balzac and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bureaucracy stands out in Balzac's immense Human Comedy by concentrating precisely and penetratingly on a distinctive "modern" institution: France's state bureaucracy. Rabourdin, aided by his unscrupulous wife, attempts to reorganize and streamline the entire system. Rabourdin's plan will halve the government's size while doubling its revenue. When the plan is leaked, Rabourdin's rival--an utter incompetent--gains the overwhelming support of the frightened and desperate body of low-ranking functionaries.