By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.

By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.

Nouvelle édition augmentée de nombreuses annexes biographiques. La nouvelle, Un homme d'affaires, a paru pour la première fois en 1844 aux éditions Hetzel, sous le titre "Les Roueries d'un créancier" Il est inséré dans dans les "Scènes de la vie parisienne" de la "Comédie humaine" A PROPOS DE L'ÉDITEUR : Les éditions Arvensa sont les leaders de la littérature classique numérique. Leur objectif est de vous faire connaître les oeuvres des grands auteurs de la littérature classique en langue française à un prix abordable tout en vous fournissant la meilleure expérience de lecture sur votre liseuse. Tous les titres sont produits avec le plus grand soin. Chaque édition contient un système de navigation intuitif et ergonomique: • Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou de livre à livre. • Accédez instantanément à la table des matières hyperliée globale. • Une table des matières est placée également au début de chaque titre. Le service qualité s’engage à vous répondre dans les 48h. Retrouvez les actualités et tous les titres des éditions Arvensa sur leur site

By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comédie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.

Les machinations de Théodose de La Peyrade, jeune avocat, pour : obtenir la main de Modeste Colleville, faire nommer député M. Thuillier, séduire Mme Colleville, se jouer de Cérizet et Dutocq, ... Tout un programme ! C'est aussi une description de ces petits bourgeois qui pullulaient dans le Paris du XIXe siècle. Ce roman inachevé de Balzac met en scène les personnages du bureau de Rabourdin des Employés. Balzac avait l'habitude de parler de ce roman comme un nouveau Tartuffe.

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Comedie Humaine was written between 1799 and 1850. This collection contains 95 novels, stories, and essays. Ferragus is the fist work in The Thirteen (Histoire des Treize) section of La Comedie Humaine.

En el París de la Restauración francesa, el general Armand de Montriveau, se enamora de la duquesa de Langeais, quien seduce al caballero para luego rechazarlo en varias ocasiones, provocando el rencor y el deseo de venganza en él. La humillación que ha sentido y su despecho empujan a Montriveau a burlarse de su amada, pero el juego terminará con el ingreso de esta en un convento español.

Niché au cœur de Paris, l'hôtel particulier des San-Réal est une enclave orientale qui abrite les amours saphiques de la marquise de San-Réal, sorte d' "Othello femelle" et de Paquita, la Fille aux yeux d'or. Mais la jeune fille est également convoitée par Henri de Marsay, jeune dandy parisien qui en est fou. Le boudoir à l'atmosphère enivrante où Henri retrouve Paquita devient alors le cadre d'un crime affreux. En parfait conteur, Balzac soutient jusqu'à son terme le rythme et l'intensité d'une histoire cruelle, dans laquelle les blessures d'amour - ou plutôt d'amour propre ? - sont aveuglément réparées dans le sang. Après Ferragus et La Duchesse de Langeais, La Fille aux yeux d'or clôt en 1834 la trilogie de l'Histoire des Treize, où Balzac invente une sorte de communauté consacrée au service du diable.

Honoré 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 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 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, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, 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.

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 presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of 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, Emile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, 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.