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The human comedy by Honoré de Balzac, 1893, P. F. Collier edition, in English By using our website you agree to our use of cookies.

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège de Vendôme and the Sorbonne. Book as described.  US$16.95, Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter, An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life--lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more--move through the pages of The Human Comedy, Balzac's multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor.

 US$9.00, US$15.80 In "Another Study of Womankind," the rhetorical passages on French society. —Nicholas Lezard. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Out of such tales one can see how Balzac was the great-grandfather to writers as diverse as Colette and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry."

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“The great thing about work this entertaining is that it’s still exciting nearly 200 years on." In 1850, he married Eveline Hanska, a rich Polish woman with whom he had long conducted an intimate correspondence. Although the standard varies somewhat from story to story, Balzac's ability to portray a character always shines through but don't go looking for happy endings!

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Here are “The Duchesse de Langeais,” “A Passion in the Desert,” and “Sarrasine”; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime.


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It would be impossible to collect all of Balzac's writings into one volume, but this one gives a good sense of the breadth of Balzac's work, with selections in a variety of genres and settings. The Book Depository Ltd.UK.

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It's just choosing where to begin....Happily, in The Human Comedy: Selected Stories, Peter Brooks has managed to capture this enormous range and more by plucking a mere nine of the Frenchmen's best tales. - falls short of masterpiece for want of a single element: Henry James.  US$15.99, US$6.50  US$12.87, US$8.11  US$13.99, US$5.45

--Charles Baudelaire "Large as Balzac is, he is all of one piece and he hangs together perfectly." Acceso escritores. The Human Comedy Philosophical Studies III  US$19.95, US$18.02  US$25.76, US$11.50 Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

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--Friedrich Engels "In Balzac, every living soul is a weapon loaded to the very muzzle with will." US$15.03 For print-disabled users.

--André Maurois.  US$14.95, US$15.47 Often his prose is a trudge but here there be pleasures.

The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac’s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. His translation of Claude Simon's The Jardin des Plantes won the French-American Foundation's annual translation prize in 2001.

Honoré de Balzac - Descargar libros gratis en formatos PDF y EPUB para kindle, tablet, IPAD, PC o teléfono móvil.  US$21.88, US$18.94 In "Adieu," the flight from the Battle of Berezina that leads from one horror of war to the next.

Her work includes Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus, Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim, and The Family Idiot (a study of Flaubert) by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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This new translation of 9 dazzling stories and novellas is a wonderful way to become reacquainted with Balzac. The Human Comedy includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac’s many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful.  US$29.95, US$17.89 This is a collection of short stories + 1 novella. Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day He edited Balzac's The Human Comedy: Short Stories for NYRB, and also Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller's fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the "mysterious circulation of blood and desire.

 US$31.64, US$17.10 New translations of dazzling stories and novellas, Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2014.

Balzac’s plan to produce a unified series of books that would comprehend the whole of I found this volume enjoyable and will definitely be tracking down other selections of Balzac's work, from The Human Comedy and elsewhere. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Classic Fiction Anthologies & Collections, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Balzac's ability to portray a character always shines through but don't go looking for happy endings!  US$11.50, US$27.97 Lengthy but for the most part worth it "Duchesse de Langeais" - dedicated to Liszt! Carol Cosman is a translator of French literature and letters.  US$17.75, US$5.71  US$19.30, US$27.74

 US$28.00, US$12.52 Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2018. --Publishers Weekly "The characters and sentences still leap from the page as if they were trapped there just seconds ago. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

", "The great thing about work this entertaining is that it's still exciting nearly 200 years on." The Human Comedy: Selected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) - Kindle edition by Balzac, Honore de, Brooks, Peter, Asher, Linda, Cosman, Carol, Stump, Jordan.  US$17.50, US$14.85

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2017. Dandies and duchesses discuss the decline of aristocratic mores at a dinner party in "Another Study of Womankind."  US$14.95, US$25.89 --V. S. Pritchett "Balzac was by turns a saint, a criminal, an honest judge, a corrupt judge, a minister, a fob, a harlot, a duchess, and always a genius."  US$15.95, US$6.19 What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller’s fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the “mysterious circulation of blood and desire.”, 本站用于学习Python测试，内容均来自网络公开信息，仅供学习研究；如有版权问题，请及时联系我们解决。. He divides his life between Alexandria, VA and New Haven, CT. Linda Asher has translated works by Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, Victor Hugo, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Restif de la Bretonne, and many others. Interesting reading a book from the early 19th c. I'm sure it lost a bit in the translation but very enjoyable. DAISY download. I've read some of these stories in French, and want to compare this translation with the way I translate them.  US$11.58, US$5.24

 US$19.30, US$15.78 The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject:  US$19.75, US$23.05

An NYRB Classics Original We think of Honoré de Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy.Yet along with the full-length fiction within The Human Comedy stand many shorter works, among the most brilliant and forceful of his fictions. Despite the radically different society his characters inhabit, their humanity always strikes true.

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