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Atheist's Mass: Little Black Classics: Penguin 80s #41 by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics
'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diver ...Show more
Cousin Bette by David (INT) Sylvia (TRN); Bellos Honore de; Raphael Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion. Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France stru ...Show more
Cousin Pons: Part Two of 'Poor Relations' by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disda ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguins
"Me have that golden gown!" A blameless girl and her monstrous relatives clash over love and money in Balzac's matchless portrayal of greed in a French provincial town.
Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This Orange Inheritance Edition of "Eugenie Grandet" is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. "Vintage Classics" asked t ...Show more
Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac
Category: Craft
Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honor de Balzac This is the third part of the trilogy "The Thirteen". First part is entitled "Ferragus" and part two is entitled "The Duchesse de Lengeais". The story follows the decadent heir Henri de Marsay, who becomes enamored of the titular beauty, Paquita Valdes, and p ...Show more
Lost Illusions by Honore de Balzac
Category: Classics | Series: The\Human Comedy Ser.
Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.
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