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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France has given the world some of its greatest writers, and this box of four short stories offers a perfect introduction to their work. Through sharp observations and masterful prose, they capture human nature in all its complexity, taking us fro...

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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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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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"Det ligger ett hus vid rue de Paris i Douai vars utseende, inre planering och detaljer bättre än något annat har bevarat den gamla flamländska byggnadsstil som så naturligt ansluter sig till det patriarkaliska levnadssättet i denna landsända; men...

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"I en av Frankrikes minst betydande prefekturer, mitt i staden, vid ett gathörn, ligger det ett hus; men vad gatan och staden heter måste här förtigas." Antikkabinettet (1839) är en av de stort klarsynta revolutionsromanerna från artonhundratalet....

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"Det ligger ett hus vid rue de Paris i Douai vars utseende, inre planering och detaljer bättre än något annat har bevarat den gamla flamländska byggnadsstil som så naturligt ansluter sig till det patriarkaliska levnadssättet i denna landsända; men...

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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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Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a de...

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This is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. It is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition and lust for money. The detailed descriptions o...

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Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valérie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes of lust, greed and virtue, Balzac delivers a po...

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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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Lucien Chardon må vara fattig och naiv, men han är stilig, ambitiös och därtill övertygad om sin egen förträfflighet. Som journalist, aspirerande författare och poet misslyckas han ändå med att göra sig ett namn i sin stillsamma hemstad. Han uppmä...

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His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honoré de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder,...

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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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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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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 struggle ...

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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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Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glor...

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, 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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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 Com die Humaine. Compell...

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