Honor De Balzac: 1029 books

An affectionate remembrance from the Author.

The main character, Desplein is a successful surgeon and an atheist. His former assistant and friend is Doctor Horace Bianchon. One day Bianchon sees Desplein going into the Saint-Sulpice church, and follows him. He sees Desplein alone attending a mass. After Desplein departs, Bianchon questions the...

Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an instalment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character.

Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to which the finger of God, often called chance, supplies the place of human justice, and in which the moral is none the less striking and instructive because it is pointed by a scoffer.

Appartenente al ciclo dei poveri, del quale 'La cugina Bette' è l'altra metà, fu scritto a completamente del progetto un anno dopo rispetto al prologo, nel 1847. Il cugino Pons è un uomo povero, dignitoso e antiquato nel proprio stile di vita e nel proprio modo di pensare, che porta avanti due...

Nachdem sein Vater verstorben ist muss sich Jean-Jacques nun um dessen Mündel, die 17jährige Flore, kümmern. Er hält sie als Mätresse, während Flore mit ihrem Geliebten Pläne schmiedet ihren Gönner zu "beerben" ...

“Peterchens Mondfahrt” ist ein Märchen für Kinder. Es handelt von den Abenteuern des Maikäfers Herr Sumsemann, der zusammen mit den Menschenkindern Peter und Anneliese zum Mond fliegt, um von dort sein verlorengegangenes sechstes Beinchen zu holen. Es gilt heute als ein Klassiker der deutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)

Das Buch handelt von der Familie Grandet, die in Saumur an der Loire lebt. Vater Grandet ist einer der reichsten Männer der Umgebung und dabei unmenschlich geizig; sein ganzes Trachten und Streben gilt allein der Wahrung und Mehrung seines Vermögens. Die Mutter, seine Tochter Eugénie und das Hausmädchen führen in seinem Schatten ein stilles, freudloses Dasein.

To The Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Periollas,

The narrative deals with French aristocracy. The grand dame who used to invite the elite of the society is forced to live in seclusion. But far from the city, she again finds love; luck, however favours those who have the guts to act in time. A tale of unrequited love that touches the heart!

La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours. At this point the river, broad as a lake, and covered with scattered green islands, flows between two lines of cliff, where country houses built uniformly of white stone stand among their gardens and vineyards...

50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol.1 (German Edition) Inhalt: Kandide oder Die beste aller Welten (1759) Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Ahnung und Gegenwart (1815) Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus (1818) Ivanhoe (1819) Eugénie Grandet (1833) Vater Goriot (1835) Gullivers...