La Comédie humaine

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La Comédie humaine by Honoré de Balzac

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• Author's Introduction to The Human Comedy, 1842

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

Contents 1 Studies of Manners 1.1 Scenes From Private Life 1.2 Scenes From Provincial Life 1.3 Scenes From Parisian Life 1.4 Scenes From Political Life 1.5 Scenes From Military Life 1.6 Scenes From Country Life 2 Philosophical Studies 3 Analytical Studies

[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
• About Catherine de' Medici
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
• Louis Lambert
• The Exiles
• Seraphita

[edit] Analytical Studies

• The Physiology of Marriage
• Pathology of the Social Life

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