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Seraphita

Honore de Balzac

Seraphita is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac with themes of androgyny. It was published in the Revue de Paris in 1834. In contrast with the realism of most of the author's best known works, the sto..

The Unknown Masterpiece

Honore de Balzac

The Unknown Masterpiece is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste with the title "Maître Frenhofer" in August 1831. It appeared again later in the same ye..

Father Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Father Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Said to have been an i..

Madame Firmiani

Honore de Balzac

Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those ..

Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Part 2

Honore de Balzac

Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Part 2 is a romance literary work written by Cerfberr and Christopher...

The Muse of the Department

Honore de Balzac

The Muse of the Department is a French fiction writing by Honoré de Balzac, who was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleoni..

Another Study of Woman

Honore de Balzac

A series of tales -- told by men, of course -- about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later,..

La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote

Honore de Balzac

La Maison du chat-qui-pelote is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée, which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine. First entitled Gloi..