Honoré de Balzac

During the 1840s, a bourgeois Parisian family is brought to ruin by the machinations of an embittered spinster.

Cousin Bette

John Nettles

A boot-up or shut-up kinda book, Balzac shits all over each character as well as the reader in a cold dose of "anti-fiction fiction." Awesome. Not a book to read while relaxing on the beach.

Lost Illusions (Penguin Classics)

Joshua Line

Eugénie Grandet

Dana Paduraru

Stephanie Rich

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Linda

Sarah Sammis

savannah eden

Genís Salat

Eugenie Grandet (Penguin Classics)

Maurice FitzGerald

George Saintsbury

Lost Illusions

Suat ATAN

Scènes de la vie de Province.

Eugénie Grandet

poprika

Radwa

Barbara

Florence

Daniel Carril

Ioana Kardos

Lost illusions

Seth Kalback

Clare B

Cousin Bette

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