Honore de Balzac

Vadideki Zambak

Olivia McCannon

A witty and reflective look at a society driven by social ambition and lust for riches-in a brilliant new translation. Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers-and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring Eugene the status and acceptance he craves? Nothing is as it seems in Paris, however, and soon he is over his head in a world of greed and obsession.

Old Man Goriot

Charles Dickens

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Wilhelm Hauff

Samuel Warren

Ernst Hoffmann

This book was a finalist in the USA Book Awards anthology category. Thanks to Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others, the half century from 1800-1849 is the cradle of all modern horror short stories. Andrew Barger, the editor of this book as well as "Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems," read over 300 horror short stories to compile the 12 best. At the back of the book he includes a list of all horror short stories he considered along with their dates of publication and author, when available. He even includes background for each of the stories, author photos and annotations for difficult terminology. A number of the stories were published in leading periodicals of the day such as Blackwood's and Atkinson's Casket. Read The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849 today!

A Classic Horror Anthology

The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849

Laurent Poret

Lily in the Valley

When the night came, he went to the meeting-place, and quietly let himself be blindfolded. Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella—never before published as a stand-alone book—is perhaps the most outlandish thing he ever wrote. While still concerned with the depiction of the underside of Parisian life, as is most of Balzac’s oeuvre, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers not the working lives of the poor, but the sex lives of the upper crust. In a nearly boroque rendering with erotically charged details as well as lush and extravagant language, The Girl with the Golden Eyes tells the story of a rich and ruthless young man in nineteenth century Paris caught up in an amorous entanglement with a mysterious beauty. His control slipping, incest, homosexuality, sexual slavery, and violence combine in what was then, and still remains, a shocking and taboo-breaking work. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

المتصيدة

Em sua obra, Balzac apresenta Julie, a infeliz heroína, com problemas considerados característicos da vida amorosa e sentimental feminina e com o fracasso do casamento.

A mulher de trinta anos

Goriot Baba

ÊLe Pere Goriot is a novel written by French novelist and playwright HonorŽ de Balzac in 1835. It is included in the Scenes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comedie humaine. The story takes place in Paris in 1819 and has thee crossing lives of three characters: a naive law student named Eugene de Rastignac, the elderly doting Goriot, and a mysterious criminal named Vautrin. It is considered the most important novel of Balzac. He used in this series his distinguished fiction technique of using characters from other books. The story is also considered as example of his realist style, using very detailed description. The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought changes to French society. Major theme in the book is conflict of individuals to gain a higher status in life.

Father Goriot

Large format paper back for easy reading. Amusing dialogue and brilliantly portrayed characters from the 'French Shakespeare'

Louis Lambert

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comedie Humaine," which presented a panorama of French life.

Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great

Deniz Kiyisinda Bir Dram

Dianggap sebagai pelopor fiksi realis, novelis Prancis yang produktif, Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), menuliskan kehidupan sehari-hari dalam kisah-kisah yang penuh dengan plot-plot melodramatis dan penuh hasrat. Buku ini berisi tiga dari cerita pendek Balzac: "Mahakarya Tak Dikenal," kisah seorang pelukis—yang tergantung dari sudut pandang siapa, bisa menjadi pelukis yang gagal atau pelukis yang genius—atau keduanya. Kisah ini disebut-sebut menjadi inspirasi bagi para seniman, seperti Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, dan sutradara Jacques Rivette. "Sebuah Kisah di Masa Teror," sebuah kisah yang menggambarkan kemiskinan materi dengan kekayaan spiritual berlatar paska-Revolusi Prancis. "Sarassine," sebuah kisah tentang seorang pematung muda yang jatuh cinta pada seorang diva, tapi rasa cintanya berubah menjadi kemurkaan ketika ia menemukan kenyataan di balik suaranya yang menggoda.

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