Honoré de Balzac

Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Häxan; Den föregivna kurtisanen; Faran av att vara för oerfaren; Den dyrbara kärleksnatten; Den glade Meudonprästens predikan; Den förtvivlade älskaren och Barnslig oskuld. I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist -

Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Konungens älskarinna, Konnetabelns maka, Flickan från Thilhouze, Vapenbrodern, Kyrkoherden i Azay-Le-Rideau, Läxan, Frans I:s fasta, De kloka nunnorna i Poissy och Huruledes slotter i Azay blev byggt I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) var en mycket produktiv författare som lade grunden för realismen. Han hör till en av de mest namnkunniga franska författarna och blev känd för sin känsla för detaljer och för sina karaktärsskildringar. -

1799, le Consulat. Des paysans bretons s'arment pour le retour du roi. Une aristocrate, Marie de Verneuil, est alors envoy e par le chef de la police, Joseph Fouch , pour s duire et capturer leur guide, le marquis de Montauran. Mais en s'infiltrant parmi les vend ens, Marie met sa propre vie en danger... alors qu'il semblerait que leur chef ne laisse pas la jeune femme compl tement insensible.

S raph t s, tre trange et m lancolique, semble cacher un terrible secret; il aime Minna et il est aim d'elle, qui voit en lui un homme. S raph t s est aussi aim par Wilfrid, qui le consid re comme une femme, S raph ta. Mais cet tre quasi-c leste, dou de facult s mentales d passant celles du commun des mortels, parviendra-t-il conna tre l'amour parfait, celui qui consiste aimer conjointement deux tres de sexes oppos s... ?

Le jeune aristocrate Rapha l de Valentin, apr s avoir perdu toute sa fortune pour payer les dettes de son p re, a l'intention de se suicider. Il rentre par hasard chez un antiquaire, o un vieil homme lui montre alors une peau de chagrin ayant le pouvoir d'exaucer tous les voeux de son propri taire: Si tu me poss des, tu poss deras tout, mais ta vie m'appartiendra .

Comment un mariage, m me souhait et m me socialement brillant, peut conduire une jeune fille au malheur. Comment une jeune m re r siste une passion adult re, mais sombre dans le chagrin. Comment une jeune femme dans tout l' clat de sa maturit retrouve le go t de l'amour puis se trouve punie dans le destin tragique de ses propres enfants. Voil la trame du roman.

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years as a recovering amnesiac. Having returned to Paris and discovered that his wife has married an aristocrat who has liquidated all his assets, Chabert enlists the help of Derville to recover both his name and his fortune. Part of Balzac’s La Comédie humaine cycle, Colonel Chabert is a poignant tale about the pursuit of justice, as well as a portrait of France’s transition from the Napoleonic Empire to the Restoration. Inspired by actual events, the novella has captured the imagination of generations of readers and has been adapted for the stage and screen numerous times.

C sar Birotteau est un parfumeur parisien de talent. Capable d'inventer de nouvelles lotions, il rencontre rapidement le succ s et la fortune qui l'accompagne. Ses r ves d'int grer la haute soci t prennent forme lorsqu'on lui propose d'acqu rir des terrains b tir, quartier de la Madeleine, Paris. Mais le parfumeur a-t-il raison de se lancer dans de nouvelles affaires...

Considered to be one of Balzac's most important works, "Pere Goriot" is the story of its title character Jean-Joachim Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eug ne de Rastignac. We are introduced to the characters at Maison Vauquer, a boarding house owned by the widow Madame Vauquer. Central to the theme of the book is the struggle to achieve upper-class status in society. Rastignac is eager to achieve this upper-class standing but is unfamiliar to the ways of Parisian society. Vautrin tries to convince Rastignac to pursue an unmarried woman named Victorine, a dubious suggestion which involves the disposal of her brother who blocks access to the woman's fortune. The failings to achieve this upper-class status are exemplified by Goriot who has bankrupted himself in supporting his two well-married daughters, who despite the fact reject him. A classic and tragic story, "Pere Goriot" is one of the most pivotal works in Balzac's sweeping novel sequence "La Comedie Humaine", which endeavors to depict the social panoramic of the human condition. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, follows the translation of Ellen Marriage, and includes an introduction by R. L. Sanderson.

Monsieur de Manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful residence owned by his wife. During the last days of the reign of Louis XV., he bought the post of major of the Gate Guards, and lived till 1813, having by great good luck escaped the dangers of the Revolution in the following manner. Toward the close of the year, 1790, he went to Martinque, where his wife had interests, leaving the management of his property in Gascogne to an honest man, a notary's clerk, named Mathias, who was inclined to-or at any rate did-give into the new ideas. On his return the Comte de Manerville found his possessions intact and well-managed. This sound result was the fruit produced by grafting the Gascon on the Norman. Madame de Manerville died in 1810. Having learned the importance of worldly goods through the dissipations of his youth, and, giving them, like many another old man, a higher place than they really hold in life, Monsieur de Manerville became increasingly economical, miserly, and sordid. Without reflecting that the avarice of parents prepares the way for the prodigalities of children, he allowed almost nothing to his son, although that son was an only child.