Author:Honoré de Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

See biography, media, quotes. Nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. — Excerpted from Honoré de Balzac on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 La Comédie humaine 1.1.1 Studies of Manners 1.1.1.1 Scenes From Private Life 1.1.1.2 Scenes From Provincial Life 1.1.1.3 Scenes From Parisian Life 1.1.1.4 Scenes From Political Life 1.1.1.5 Scenes From Military Life 1.1.1.6 Scenes From Country Life 1.1.2 Philosophical Studies 1.1.3 Analytical Studies 2 Works about Balzac

[edit] Works

• Adieu
• Folk-Tales of Napoleon

[edit] La Comédie humaine

• Author's Introduction to The Human Comedy, 1842

(See also Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine for a comprehensive index of characters.)

[edit] Studies of Manners

[edit] Scenes From Private Life

• At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
• The Ball at Sceaux
• The Purse
• The Vendetta
• Madame Firmiani
• A Second Home
• Domestic Peace
• The Imaginary Mistress
• Study of a Woman
• Another Study of a Woman
• La Grand Breteche
• Albert Savarus
• Letters of Two Brides
• A Daughter of Eve
• A Woman of Thirty
• The Deserted Woman
• La Grenadiere
• The Message
• Gobseck
• A Marriage Contract
• A Start in Life
• Modeste Mignon
• Beatrix
• Honorine
• Colonel Chabert
• The Atheist's Mass
• The Commission in Lunacy
• Pierre Grassou

[edit] Scenes From Provincial Life

• Ursule Mirouet
• Eugénie Grandet
• The Celibates:
  • Pierrette
  • The Vicar of Tours
• A Bachelor's Establishment
• Parisians in the Country:
  • The Illustrious Gaudissart
  • The Muse of the Department
• The Jealousies of a Country Town
  • The Old Maid
  • The Collection of Antiquities
• The Lily of the Valley
• Lost Illusions (Les Illusions perdues)
  • The Two Poets
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • Eve and David

[edit] Scenes From Parisian Life

• Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
  • Esther Happy
  • What Love Costs an Old Man
  • The End of Evil Ways
  • Vautrin's Last Avatar
• A Prince of Bohemia
• A Man of Business
• Gaudissart II.
• The Unconscious Comedians
• The Thirteen
  • Ferragus
  • The Duchesse de Langeais
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes
• Father Goriot
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
• The Firm of Nucingen
• The Secrets of a Princess
• The Government Clerks
• Sarrasine
• Facino Cane
• Poor Relations
  • Cousin Bette
  • Cousin Pons
• The Middle Classes

[edit] Scenes From Political Life

• The Gondreville Mystery or An Historical Mystery
• An Episode Under the Terror
• The Seamy Side of History: or The Brotherhood of Consolation
  • Madame de la Chanterie
  • Initiated or The Initiate
• Z. Marcas
• The Member for Arcis or The Deputy for Arcis

[edit] Scenes From Military Life

• The Chouans
• A Passion in the Desert

[edit] Scenes From Country Life

• The Country Doctor
• The Country Parson or The Village Rector
• The Peasantry or Sons of the Soil

[edit] Philosophical Studies

• The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin)
• The Quest of the Absolute or The Alkahest
• Christ in Flanders
• Melmoth Reconciled
• The Unknown Masterpiece or The Hidden Masterpiece
• The Hated Son
• Gambara
• Massimilla Doni
• The Maranas or Juana
• Farewell
• The Conscript or The Recruit
• El Verdugo
• A Seaside Tragedy or A Drama on the Seashore
• The Red Inn
• The Elixir of Life
• Maitre Cornelius
• Catherine de Medici
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
• Louis Lambert
• Les Proscrits (1831)
  • The Exiles, translation by Clara Bell {1899)
  • The Exiles, translation by William Walton (1897)
  • The Exiles, translation by Katherine Wormeley (1893)
• Seraphita

[edit] Analytical Studies

• The Physiology of Marriage
• Pathology of the Social Life

[edit] Works about Balzac

• Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac by Author:George Saintsbury, 1901
• Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac by Epiphanius Wilson and Joseph Walker McSpadden, 1901
• Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Mary F. Sandars, 1904
• Balzac by Frederick Lawton, 1910
• The "Balzac, Honoré de" article in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• The "Balzac, Honore de" article in the The New Student's Reference Work, 1914
• Honoré de Balzac by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, translated by Author:Frederic Taber Cooper, 1914
• Women in the Life of Balzac, by Juanita Helm Floyd, 1921
• Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules François Christophe, translated by Joseph Walker McSpadden

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.