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Pere Goriot
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0199538751 ISBN13: 9780199538751
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Feb 2009
This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin. This is the tragic... More

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Old Man Goriot
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0140449728 ISBN13: 9780140449723
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Jan 2011
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... More

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Lost Illusions
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0140442510 ISBN13: 9780140442519
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 24 Jun 1976
Lucien Chardon, a young poet trying to make a name for himself in Paris, is befriended by aristocratic patrons but finds himself relentlessly drawn to the low life of the big city. Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive... More

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Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0099560860 ISBN13: 9780099560869
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2011
Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. On the evening of his daughter Eugenie's twenty third birthday his... More

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Cousin Bette
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0199553947 ISBN13: 9780199553945
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2008
Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous... More

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Eugenie Grandet
Honore de Balzac Christopher Prendergast

ISBN10: 0199555893 ISBN13: 9780199555895
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2009
One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's great Comedie Humaine, Eugenie Grandet (1833) is a story of family conflict, unrequited love and self-sacrifice set against the aftermath of the French Revolution. 'Who is going to marry... More

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ISBN: 9780140442328 - A Harlot High and Low

A Harlot High and Low
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0140442324 ISBN13: 9780140442328
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New impression
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Aug 1975
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... More

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ISBN: 9780140441604 - Cousin Bette (Pt. 1)

Cousin Bette (Pt. 1)
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0140441603 ISBN13: 9780140441604
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: 1
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jan 1973
A tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, and a portrayal of the bourgeois society of 1840s Paris. It features poor, plain spinster Bette who is compelled to survive on the patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris... More

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ISBN: 9780812966756 - Wrong Side of Paris

Wrong Side of Paris
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0812966759 ISBN13: 9780812966756
Publisher: Random House USA Inc Modern Library Inc
Edition: Modern Library
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Jun 2005

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Cousin Pons
Honore de Balzac

ISBN10: 0140442057 ISBN13: 9780140442052
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 May 1978
Pons is an ageing musician, and believes that fame has fallen to nothing. Living with his friend, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. This novel... More

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