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Eugenie Grandet (Penguin Classics)
Pure Balzac Gold!: "The spirit, like the body, must breathe to live: it needs to take in love, from another soul, like oxygen, make it part of itself, and give it back enriched. Without that beautiful process the heart dies: it suffers from lack of [... more]
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Cousin Bette (Oxford World's Classics)
V For Virtue: This novel examines the effects of virtue and vice on the involved characters as well as commenting on the temper of the times. Balzac's style can be melodramatic but at his best he is able to put the reader in the scene and reveal the [... more]
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Old Goriot (Penguin Classics)
Old Goriot is a searing portrait of a nineteenth century Parisian King Lear: Old Goriot is a short novel of 1835 written by the prolific Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), Balzac wanted to portray in his long series "The Human Comedy" French life in [... more]
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A Harlot High and Low (Penguin Classics)
The Sequelitus-Sore Itches and Burns ( - ) Balzac Prevails: Like many other reviewers here at Amazon, I have a weakness for `Sequelitus.' What is this dreadful affliction, you might ask? Well, it is the compulsion to pursue a good story to its very end - [... more]
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Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics)
Book Description???: I have no quibbles with Balzac or anything the man wrote. However, contrary to what the "Book Description" says, "The Forsaken Woman" (or "La Femme Abandonee") is not contained within the pages of this [... more]
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Lost Illusions (Penguin Classics)
Swimming among sharks: This is one of the best novels by Balzac, which is to say much, since he is still one of the best writers that have ever lived. Here, as in the rest of his work, the reader can appreciate Balzac's knowledge of worldly life, and [... more]
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The Wild Ass's Skin (Penguin Classics)
Skin of Chagrin: O.K. A minority opinion. Nowhere are the master storyteller's considerable talents more admirably on display than in this quintessential commentary on the futility of desire. What is the locus of Balzac's genius? One of the all-time [... more]
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Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
V For Virtue: This novel examines the effects of virtue and vice on the involved characters as well as commenting on the temper of the times. Balzac's style can be melodramatic but at his best he is able to put the reader in the scene and reveal the [... more]
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The Black Sheep (Penguin Classics)
BRING ON THE IRONY: In his preface to this book, Balzac makes an interesting observation about 19th century France that seems to be a preoccupation of our century as well. Balzac states that young men who grow up without a significant male role model are [... more]
$16.00
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History of the Thirteen (Penguin Classics)
Conspiracies of the Heart: "They were thirteen kings...judges and executioners too, they had equipped themselves with wings in order to soar over society in its heights and depths, and disdained to occupy any place in it because they had unlimited [... more]
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Eugénie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
Pure Balzac Gold!: "The spirit, like the body, must breathe to live: it needs to take in love, from another soul, like oxygen, make it part of itself, and give it back enriched. Without that beautiful process the heart dies: it suffers from lack of [... more]
$10.95
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Eugenie Grandet (Oxford World's Classics)
Good as gold: Monsieur Grandet, the father of the titular heroine of Balzac's short novel "Eugenie Grandet," is not just a miser; he is a caricature of a miser, a modern Midas whose first love is gold, as ornately drawn as Dickens's Scrooge, [... more]
$12.95
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