Books by Honore De Balzac

Portrait of Honore De Balzac

Honoré de Balzac, one of the towering figures of nineteenth‑century French literature, is best known for his monumental cycle La Comédie Humaine. Across these interconnected novels and stories, Balzac portrays every stratum of society with extraordinary psychological insight and meticulous realism, creating a portrait of human ambition, desire, and frailty that remains vivid today.

His works, from Père Goriot to Eugénie Grandet, reveal an unflinching eye for social detail and the relentless pursuit of status and fortune. Balzac's influence on later writers was immense, shaping the novel as a form capable of encompassing the full complexity of modern life while offering readers a compelling vision of character and circumstance.

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  • Eugenie Grandet Vintage Classics

    Vintage Publishing Eugenie Grandet Vintage Classics

    7 in stock

    Book SynopsisMonsieur 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 foppish nephew Charles suddenly arrives from Paris. Eugenie has never known passion.

    7 in stock

    £14.39

  • OLD GORIOT Easton Press

    Random House USA Inc OLD GORIOT Easton Press

    10 in stock

    Book SynopsisHonoré de Balzac’s great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, who has bankrupted himself for the sake of his two rapacious, social-climbing daughters, Delphine and Anastasie; a mysterious and sinister conspirator named Vautrin; Victorine, a disinherited heiress; and a naive and impoverished law student from the country, Eugène de Rastignac.   Rastignac is appalled at first by the greed and corruption he finds in Paris, but he soon sets his sights on conquering high society. He joins forces with the array of schemers who surround him, while the suffering, self-sacrificing Goriot yearns in vain for his daughters’ love. The sprawling, vibrant, and turbulent Paris of the post-Napoleonic era is it

    10 in stock

    £20.80

  • Classiques Garnier Le Cabinet Des Antiques

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    £21.35

  • Classiques Garnier La Cousine Bette

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    £36.81

  • Classiques Garnier Le Cure de Tours

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    £28.42

  • Classiques Garnier Splendeurs Et Miseres Des Courtisanes

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    £30.13

  • Classiques Garnier La Maison Du Chat-Qui-Pelote

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    £22.34

  • Tratado de la vida elegante

    1 in stock

    Book SynopsisSegún el autor, la definición de "vida elegante" sería: el arte de gastar las rentas como hombre de talento; o también: ciencia que nos enseña a no hacer nada pareciendo hacerlo todo; o mejor acaso: el desenvolvimiento de la gracia y del gusto en todo lo que nos es propio y nos rodea; o más lógicamente: saber hacer gala de su fortuna.La vida elegante soporta todas estas definiciones pero encierra cuestiones aún más importantes. Una nación se compone de personas que producen y personas que consumen. Del deseo de no pertenecer a la clase doliente y vejada derivan la nobleza, la aristocracia, los cortesanos y cortesanas, etc. Cada hombre ha sentido la necesidad de tener, como una muestra de su poder, un signo destinado a enseñar a los transeúntes el lugar que ocupa en la sociedad. Y la "vida elegante" ha surgido!

    1 in stock

    £11.70

  • Hermida Editores S.L. Balzac H Comedia humana III escenas de la vida

    2 in stock

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    2 in stock

    £39.12

  • Menoscuarto Ediciones Tratado de los excitantes modernos

    2 in stock

    Book SynopsisPublicado en 1839 como apéndice de la Fisiología del gusto del ilustre gastrónomo Brillat-Savarin, este "Tratado de los excitantes modernos" es un delicioso ensayo sobre el alcohol, el azúcar, el té, el café y el tabaco. El gran escritor francés Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) dirige su aguda e irónica mirada a estas cinco sustancias para incidir en su estudio analítico de la sociedad del XIX y mostrarse, en palabras del autor de esta nueva traducción, Julio Baquero Cruz, como el héroe de la modernidad que era y nunca dejará de ser.

    2 in stock

    £14.26

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