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Droll Stories Volume 1

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"Droll Stories" is known for its ribald humor, wit, and satire. The tales are set in medieval and Renaissance France and feature a colorful cast of characters, including monks, nobles, knights, and peasants. Balzac uses these characters to lampoon various aspects of society, religion, and human folly.The stories in "Droll Stories" are often filled with irreverent and exaggerated humor, and they ... Read more

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"Droll Stories" is known for its ribald humor, wit, and satire. The tales are set in medieval and Renaissance France and feature a colorful cast of characters, including monks, nobles, knights, and peasants. Balzac uses these characters to lampoon various aspects of society, religion, and human folly.The stories in "Droll Stories" are often filled with irreverent and exaggerated humor, and they
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Droll Stories Volume 2

by Honore De Balzac ...

"Droll Stories" is known for its ribald humor, wit, and satire. The tales are set in medieval and Renaissance France and feature a colorful cast of characters, including monks, nobles, knights, and peasants. Balzac uses these characters to lampoon various aspects of society, religion, and human folly.The stories in "Droll Stories" are often filled with irreverent and exaggerated humor, and they ... Read more

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"Droll Stories" is known for its ribald humor, wit, and satire. The tales are set in medieval and Renaissance France and feature a colorful cast of characters, including monks, nobles, knights, and peasants. Balzac uses these characters to lampoon various aspects of society, religion, and human folly.The stories in "Droll Stories" are often filled with irreverent and exaggerated humor, and they
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Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honore de Balzac, 1833-1846

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"Letters to Madame Hanska" is a collection of passionate correspondence between the renowned French novelist Honoré de Balzac and his beloved, the Countess Ewelina Hanska. These letters reveal the depth of Balzac's feelings and his literary ambitions, as he navigates the complexities of love and commitment. Through his eloquent prose, Balzac shares his thoughts on life, art, and the struggles of a ... Read more

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"Letters to Madame Hanska" is a collection of passionate correspondence between the renowned French novelist Honoré de Balzac and his beloved, the Countess Ewelina Hanska. These letters reveal the depth of Balzac's feelings and his literary ambitions, as he navigates the complexities of love and commitment. Through his eloquent prose, Balzac shares his thoughts on life, art, and the struggles of a
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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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Lost Illusions

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Lost Illusions is one of Honoré de Balzac's most powerful and penetrating novels—a sweeping portrait of ambition, betrayal, art, and the relentless machinery of society. Widely regarded as a cornerstone of La Comédie Humaine, this masterwork offers an unflinching exploration of dreams pursued and shattered in the glittering yet unforgiving world of 19th-century France. The story follows Lucien ... Read more

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Lost Illusions is one of Honoré de Balzac's most powerful and penetrating novels—a sweeping portrait of ambition, betrayal, art, and the relentless machinery of society. Widely regarded as a cornerstone of La Comédie Humaine, this masterwork offers an unflinching exploration of dreams pursued and shattered in the glittering yet unforgiving world of 19th-century France. The story follows Lucien
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At The Sign of The Cat and Racket

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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Father Goriot

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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Parisians in the Country

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Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and ... Read more

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Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and
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Pere Goriot

by Honore de Balzac ...

Père Goriot marked the beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.”It is the masterful study of father Goriot, a man who has sacrificed everything for his daughters, and the other inhabitants of a Parisian boarding house in 1819.Goriot has literally bankrupted himself to shore up the finances of ... Read more

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Père Goriot marked the beginning of Balzac’s towering project La Comédie Humaine, his series of novels and short stories depicting “the whole pell-mell of civilization.”It is the masterful study of father Goriot, a man who has sacrificed everything for his daughters, and the other inhabitants of a Parisian boarding house in 1819.Goriot has literally bankrupted himself to shore up the finances of
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The Selected Works of Honore de Balzac

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One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth century offered more than one problem to the consideration of an observer. Each story presented some singularity; on the first floor ... Read more

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One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point of fact, this relic of the civic life of the sixteenth century offered more than one problem to the consideration of an observer. Each story presented some singularity; on the first floor
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Pere Goriot

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Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the ... Read more

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Edith Wharton's "Madame de Treymes" is a remarkable example of the form. It is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family. He loses, but they cheat. . . . In a masterpiece of brevity, Wharton dramatizes the contrast between the two opposing forces: the
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Sarrasine

by Honore de Balzac ...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

$8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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