Honoré De Balzac - Böcker

Eugène de Rastignac är en ung student från landet, vars önskan är att ta sig in i Paris finare kretsar. Han har inga pengar och inga kontakter, utom sin kusin Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac är inkvarterad på änkan Vauquers pensionat i Paris Latink...

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Rastignac est un jeune provincial qui cherche a s'insérer dans la société parisienne. Il lui manque les manieres et l'argent. Pour parvenir, il côtoie les femmes du monde, mais reste attaché a son voisin de la pension Vauquer, le pere Goriot, viei...

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En av realismens främsta romaner! Eugène de Rastignac är en ung juridikstudent som vill nästla sig in i Parissocieteten. Rastignac är inkvarterad på ett pensionat i ett av Paris sämre kvarter. Där bor han granne med "Pappa Goriot", en miserabel äl...

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I Amuletten [ La peau de chagrin , 1831] hittar den unga Raphaël de Valentin en bit Shagreen, ett stycke skinn med magiska egenskaper. Raphaël må vara adelsman, men en fattig sådan, och skinnet visar sig kunna uppfylla alla hans önskningar. Men ön...

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The theme of celibacy was important to Balzac, who gave the name The Celibates to a sub-section of his famous La Comdie humaine. It consists of Pierrette, The Vicar of Tours and The Black Sheep (The Two Brothers). "Pierrette" tells the story of a ...

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Depicting the fatal clash between material desires and the liberating power of human passions, Honor de Balzac's Eugnie Grandet is translated with an introduction by M.A. Crawford in Penguin Classics. In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, t...

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I det tidiga 1800-talets Paris konspirerar den rike monsieur Malin för att avsätta Napoleon. Samtidigt gömmer sig överlevande franska aristokrater i Parisnatten. Detektiven Corentin tar på sig att lösa en härva av politiska intriger som involverar...

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Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life-lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackp...

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Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Häxan; Den föregivna kurtisanen; Faran av att vara för oerfaren; Den dyrbara kärleksnatten; Den glade Meudonprästens predikan; Den förtvivlade älskaren och Barnslig oskuld. I originalöversättning av Ernst Lu...

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Novellsamling som innehåller novellerna Den sköna Imperia; Svaghetssynden; De tre studenterna från Saint-Nicholas; Djävulens arvinge och Konung Ludvig XI:s förlustelser. I originalöversättning av Ernst Lundquist

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Vem ska Eugénie Grandet gifta sig med? Detta är frågan alla ställer sig i det lilla staden Saumur, i vilken Balzacs berömda roman utspelar sig. En dag kommer Eugénies kusin hem till familjen Grandet. Han är fattig och har nyligen förlorat båda sin...

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Eugène de Rastignac är en ung student från landet, vars önskan är att ta sig in i Paris finare kretsar. Han har inga pengar och inga kontakter, utom sin kusin Madame de Beauséant. Rastignac är inkvarterad på änkan Vauquers pensionat i Paris Latink...

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Historical novel. According to Wikipedia: "e;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 Come...

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'Och om ni nu frågar mig vari denna historias moral består, har jag rättighet att svara damerna: de hundra lustiga historierna är mer avsedda att predika nöjets moral än att förskaffa en det nöjet att idka moral. Men om det vore en gammal utlevad ...

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Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a de...

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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and nave, 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 ...

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A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honor de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French with an introduction by Marion Ayton Crawford in Penguin Classics. Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to surv...

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His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honore de Balzac's The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder,...

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Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make up Balzac's History of the Thirteen are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. While the de...

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One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories - many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comdie Humaine. Compelli...

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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, and soon...

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In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society that he had written; he regarded the book as 'a remarkable tour de force'. An essentially simple tale about the...

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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.' A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's...

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'This is as much a mystery as the Immaculate Conception, which of itself must make a doctor an unbeliever.'A stunning pair of short stories about faith and sacrificial love.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. L...

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Eug ne wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers - and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a pote...

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Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence.

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In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur lives the miser Grandet with his wife and daughter, Eugnie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Guarding his piles of glittering treasures and his only child equally closely, ...

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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Already deeply resentfu...

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