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Honoré de Balzac


France (1799 - 1850)

Honore de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 and died in 1850. Celebrated as one of the greatest French writers of the nineteenth century, in particular for his work La Comedie Humaine, He is best known for and credited with the invention of the modern realist novel. In more than ninety novels he set forth French society and life as he saw it. W Somerset Maugham said, 'I suppose Balzac is the greatest novelist who ever lived'.
 
 
Novels
   Physiology of Marriage (1829)
   The Wild Ass's Skin (1831)
   The Country Parson (1833)
   Eugenie Grandet (1833)
   Illustrious Gaudissart (1833)
   The Quest of the Absolute (1834)
   Seraphita (1834)
   Melmoth Reconciled (1835)
   Pere Goriot (1835)
     aka Old Goriot
   The Lily of the Valley (1835)
   The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1837)
   La Rabouilleuse (1840)
   The Celibates (1842)
   The Black Sheep (1842)
   A Woman of Thirty (1842)
   Illusions perdues (1843)
   Lost Illusions (1843)
   The Philosopher's Stone (1844)
   Cousin Bette (1846)
   La Cousine Bette (1846)
   Le Cousin Pons (1847)
   Lost Souls (1847)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   An Episode Under the Terror
   El Verdugo (1829)
   Domestic Peace (1830)
   The Elixir of Life (1830)
   The Red Inn (1831)
   The Unknown Masterpiece (1831)
   Colonel Chabert (1832)
   Journey from Paris to Java (1832)
   La Grande Breteche (1931)
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Anthologies containing stories by Honoré de Balzac
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Fantastic Tales (1993)
Visionary and Everyday
edited by
Italo Calvino
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The Sophisticated Cat (1992)
A Gathering of Stories, Poems, And Miscellaneous Writings About Cats
edited by
Daniel Halpern and Joyce Carol Oates

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