Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of fine detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was apprenticed as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime paramour; he passed away five months later.
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Books
Eugénie Grandet
1833
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
1839
La Peau De Chagrin - Tome I
2014
L'Auberge Rouge
1831
100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature #1
2017
The Physiology of the Employee
1841
Louis Lambert
1832
La Vendetta
1830
The Deserted Woman
1832
Classic Tales of Horror
2015
Works of Honore de Balzac
1848
The Country Doctor
1833
La España Tétrica
1833
Honore de Balzac
1926
The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
1835
Droll Stories
1832
A Drama On The Seashore
1834
La Comédie Humaine - Tome X
1839
An Episode Under The Terror
1830
Ведьма
1923
Comedy of Human Life, Vol. 7
1839
The Celibates Trilogy
1976
The Deputy Of Arcis
1847
Шагреневая кожа. Обедня безбожника.
1984
Melmoth Reconciled
1835
The Purse
1832
The Elixir Of Life
1830
La Comedie Humaine
Scenes from Political Life
1835
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
1846
La Maison du Chat-qui-Pelote
1829
خاتم سليمان
2019
The Vicar Of Tours
1832
Madame Firmiani
1831
Lost Illusions
1843
Selected Short Stories
1836
Short Stories of Honore de Balzac
1830
The Bureaucrats
1838
Treatise on Elegant Living
1830
Piccole miserie della vita coniugale
1846
En gata i Paris och dess invånare
1848
Study of a Woman
1830
The Atheist's Mass
1996
Two Poets
1837
The Physiology of Marriage
1841
Domestic Peace
1830
Cousin Bette
1846
The Secrets of Princess De Cadignan and Other Studies of Women
1839
Père Goriot
1835
History of the Thirteen
1833
Commission In Lunacy
1836
Seraphita
1834
Eugenia Grandet ; La piel de zapa
1833
A Gondreville Mystery
(une Ténébreuse Affaire) Un Episode Sous La Terreur
1841
Massimilla Doni
1839
Christ in Flanders
1831
Catherine De' Medici
1841
Adieu
1830
Albert Savarus
1842
Pierre Grassou
1840
Peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise
1842
A Murky Business
1841
The Recruit
1831
Louis Lambert Les Proscrits Jésus-Christ en Flandre
1832
Public and Private Life of Animals
1841
Gambara
1839
Vautrin
1839
Pierrette
And the Abbé Birotteau
1840
The Unknown Masterpiece
1831
Modeste Mignon
1844
Treatise on Modern Stimulants
1839
Vadideki Zambak
1835
Шагреневая кожа. Отец Горио
1835
Juana, and the Red Inn
1833
Another Study Of Woman
1842
A Harlot High and Low
1838
The Chouans
A Passion in the Desert
1830
Pere Goriot/Eugenie Grandet
1835
Poor Relations
1896
My Journey from Paris to Java
1832
Sarrasine
1830
Facino Cane
1836
La Grande Bretèche
2000
The Human Comedy and Other Short Novels
1846
Gobseck
1830
The Illustrious Gaudissart
1833
The Quest Of The Absolute
1834
The Atheist's Mass
1836
The Ball At Sceaux
1829
Le Curé de village
1839
The Black Sheep
1842
Juana
1833
Le Cabinet des Antiques
1839
La Duchesse de Langeais / La Fille aux yeux d'or
1835
The Complete Harvard Classics 2021 Edition - ALL 71 Volumes
The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction
1722
Ursula
1841
El gran libro del dandismo
2013
Cousin Pons
1847
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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die [volume 1]
2020
A Second Home
1830
Une passion dans le désert
1830
The Splendors And Miseries Of Courtesans V1
1838
Cesar Birotteau
1837
Le Colonel Chabert
1761
The Imaginary Mistress
1841
Ferragus,
The Duchesse de Langeais and the Girl with the Golden Eyes
1953
The Wild Ass's Skin
1831
The Wrong Side of Paris
1848
The Marriage Contract
1835
The Fair Imperia, and The Fair Imperia Married
1837
The Exiles
1831
