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The New Atlantis  
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Essays  
Including the fifty-eight essays of the 1625 edition, this collection comprises reflections on the successful conduct of life and management of men, as well as re-workings of many of the ideas of Bac...   <More>
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The Two Brothers  
A beautiful young woman and a Napoleonic Wars veteran turned rake and mischief maker control a rich man with intent to eventually possess his fortune. Only an even more unscrupulous former soldier is...   <More>
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Another Study of Woman  
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A Daughter of Eve  
The most amusing society, but also the most mixed, which Madame Felix de Vandenesse frequented, was that of the Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, lead...   <More>
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A Drama on the Seashore  
The tragic story of how a fisherman carries out the punishment of death on his dissolute son.   <More>
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A Second Home  
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A Passion in the Desert  
A man stranded in the desert falls in love in with a beautiful panther who refrains from eating him.   <More>
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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket  
The daughter of a draper makes an inappropriate marriage with a painter, Sommervieux, whom she is never able to understand and who is eventually unfaithful to her.   <More>
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Beatrix  
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Bureaucracy  
At this moment the division of Monsieur de la Billardiere was in a state of unusual excitement, resulting very naturally from the event which was about to happen; for heads of divisions do not die ev...   <More>
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Christ in Flanders  
From the Philosophical Studies section of Balzac's famous La Comedie Humaine, this story tells of the last time Christ was seen on earth -- here as the mysterious stranger that saves a group of ship...   <More>
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Colonel Chabert  
Hyacinthe Chabert is a colonel in Napoleon's Imperial Army. He marries Rose Chapotel, and they lead a rather luxurious life until he goes off to war. He is wounded in battle and is mistakenly declare...   <More>
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Cousin Pons  
Two aging musicians are too wrapped up in their work to notice the true thoughts and motives of those around them. When one of them, Pons, dies, everyone tries to grab some of his inheritance.   <More>
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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris  
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Domestic Peace  
Young men at a ball are captivated by a beautiful young woman who sits in a corner all by herself. What unfolds is a love triangle and a woman's plan to regain the love of her husband.   <More>
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El Verdugo  
El Verdugo is a tragic novel that takes place in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. While on a reconnaissance mission in the small village of Menda, Victor Marchand meets and falls in love with Clara,...   <More>
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Facino Cane  
Here, de Balzac details the life of Fancino Cane, whose ruthless military career helped him and his cronies become very rich.   <More>
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An Old Maid  
Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alenco...   <More>
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A Start in Life  
A young man without means is given the education of the "modern bourgeoisie," becoming a new type of social person.   <More>
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A Woman of Thirty  
At the close of the year 1820, came a woman, still young, well known in Paris for her charm, her fair face, and her wit; and to the immense astonishment of the little village a mile away, this woman ...   <More>
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Gambara  
Count Andrea Marcosini, a Milanese aristocrat, is spellbound when he catches the sight of a beautiful woman with eyes of fire in a crowd at the Palais-Royal. Disregarding her obvious lower social cla...   <More>
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The Ball at Sceaux  
As it is extremely doubtful that the fame of the "Bal de Sceaux" should ever have extended beyond the borders of the Department of the Seine, it will be necessary to give some account of this weekly ...   <More>
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Catherine de Medici  
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The Commission in Lunacy  
The wife of a slightly eccentric nobleman hopes to get her husband declared insane so she can control the families wealth. A lower level judge is recruited to help but when his honesty becomes an imp...   <More>
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Cousin Betty  
Cousin Bette tells the emotional tale of hatred and revenge, and the terrible price a woman pays at the hands of her rich relatives who use and humiliate her.   <More>
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Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants  
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Gaudissart II  
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Honorine  
A high ranked government official lives by himself in continual hope that his wife will return to him. An intelligent young man enters his service as his protege and is eventually recruited to get he...   <More>
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Louis Lambert  
The novel, written in the first person, describes the narrator's encounter with a gifted student, Louis Lambert, at the College of Orators at Vendome. Absorbed in his studies, Louis is isolated from ...   <More>
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Maitre Cornelius  
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Massimilla Doni  
Massimilla Doni is a love story that pays homage to the music of Rossini, to the city of Venice, and to the Italian lifestyle.   <More>
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Melmoth Reconciled  
John Melmoth sold his soul to Satan in exchange for immense powers. However, being without a soul doesn't sit well with him, and he tries to make a deal to get a soul before he dies.   <More>
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Modeste Mignon  
Modeste's father, Charles Mignon, made a fortune rapidly and went bankrupt just as fast. He then journeys to the Indies to start a new business. During his absence, Modeste and her mom stay with frie...   <More>
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Paz  
The devoted companion of a Russian nobleman falls in love with his wife, who returns the affection. The companion then devises various roundabout ways to kill the love his master's wife feels for him...   <More>
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Pierre Grassou  
A mediocre painter finally succeeds by marrying a wealthy art collector's daughter and endearing himself to the same influential people that most of his fellow artists despise.   <More>
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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau  
Eight days after his ball, the last dying flash of a prosperity of eighteen years now about to be extinguished, Cesar Birotteau watched the passers-by from the windows of his shop, thinking over the ...   <More>
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Sarrasine  
A young sculptor is captivated by a castrati opera singer, and is determined to possess her, not knowing she is really a he. As a joke some people try to set him up with the castrati. The truth event...   <More>
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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life  
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Seraphita  
1835. Written by a Rosicrucian adept, this fantastic tale is a masterful work of occult teachings. Not written for the masses, Seraphita was for those few lofty spirits who could discern Jacobs mysti...   <More>
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Study of a Woman  
A little bit of gossip related by the doctor Bianchon. One of his aristocratic female patients having imagined that she was the object of a young man's affections after the young man mistakenly sent ...   <More>
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The Atheist's Mass  
Desplein is a great surgeon. Born to a poor family, Desplein was assisted financially in his education by a poor water carrier named Bourgeat. Later on when Bourgeat is sick Desplein nurses him as a ...   <More>
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Pierrette  
When there is an old maid in a house, watch-dogs are unnecessary; not the slightest event can occur that she does not see and comment upon and pursue to its utmost consequences. The foregoing triflin...   <More>
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The Alkahest  
A fanatical scientist twice sends the family fortune up in smoke in his search for the principle of matter.   <More>
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The Brotherhood of Consolation  
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The Chouans  
A historical novel about the civil war in Brittany that occurred after the French Revolution. Balzac's first successful novel.   <More>
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The Collection of Antiquities  
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The Country Doctor  
After being spurned by the woman he loves, a doctor devotes the rest of his life to the peasants of a remote village in the region of Grenoble.   <More>
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The Deserted Woman  
An aristocratic husband and wife lead separate lives. The wife is quite active in high society, throwing parties that the greatest names in France attend, but after her lover deserts her to marry ano...   <More>
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The Duchesse de Langeais  
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The Elixir of Life  
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Eve and David  
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The Exiles  
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The Firm of Nucingen  
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes  
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The Hated Son  
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