Honoré De Balzac - Böcker

Eugène de Rastignac är en ung student från landet, vars önskan är att ta sig in i Paris finare kretsar. Han har inga pengar och inga kontakter, utom sin kusin Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac är inkvarterad på änkan Vauquers pensionat i Paris Latink...

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Eugène de Rastignac är en ung student från landet, vars önskan är att ta sig in i Paris finare kretsar. Han har inga pengar och inga kontakter, utom sin kusin Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac är inkvarterad på änkan Vauquers pensionat i Paris Latink...

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Eugène de Rastignac är en ung student från landet, vars önskan är att ta sig in i Paris finare kretsar. Han har inga pengar och inga kontakter, utom sin kusin Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac är inkvarterad på änkan Vauquers pensionat i Paris Latink...

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Kartotek 2: Michel Serres - Exakt och mänskligt / Honoré de Balzac - Utdrag från Béatrix. Förord: Jakob Lien. Tanken bakom skriftserien Kartotek är att lyfta fram viktiga teoretiska texter för en nordisk läsekrets i ett format som uppmuntrar till ...

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One of Balzac's finest novels. According to Wikipedia: "e;Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively ent...

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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....

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En av realismens främsta romaner! Eugène de Rastignac är en ung juridikstudent som vill nästla sig in i Parissocieteten. Rastignac är inkvarterad på ett pensionat i ett av Paris sämre kvarter. Där bor han granne med "Pappa Goriot", en miserabel äl...

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Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the story of an un...

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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 Lu...

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Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Den sköna Imperia; Svaghetssynden; De tre studenterna från Saint-Nicholas; Djävulens arvinge och Konung Ludvig XI:s förlustelser. I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist

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Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced he becomes shunned by those around him, and soon his ...

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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honoré de Balzac's Eugénie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the ...

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A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honoré de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics. Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive ...

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naïve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way...

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Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds o...

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One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories - many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comédie Humaine. Compell...

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In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as 'a remarkable tour de force'. An essentially simple tale about the...

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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.'A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. L...

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Eug ne wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a pote...

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Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.

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In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eug nie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely,...

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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentfu...

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and na ve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way...

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