In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eug ni...
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make hi...
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and na ve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make hi...
Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boardin...
Eug ne wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancer...
Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipati...
Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superf...
One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. ...
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially...
Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame h...
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen a...
'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an un...