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...

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...

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...

'Die Frau von dreißig Jahren', Balzacs vermutlich bekanntester Roman, greift ein im 19. Jahrhunde...

Der Roman 'Der Dorfpfarrer' (1841) entführt den Leser in das ländliche Leben Frankreichs. Im Mitt...

Der Roman 'Die alte Junger' (1837) entführt den Leser in die die tiefste französische Provinz: In...

Nach den Napoleonischen Kriegen erwirbt Graf Montcornet das Gut Les Aigues, ein wunderschönes Sch...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may conta...