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  • The Atheist's Mass

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • The Lily of the Valley

    The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac is a deeply emotional and introspective novel that explores idealized love, spiritual devotion, and the quiet intensity of restrained passion. Set against the serene landscapes of the French countryside during the early 19th century, this lyrical and reflective work stands as one of the most tender and psychologically nuanced entries in Balzac's ... Read more

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  • Lost Illusions

    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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  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes

    The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac is a dark, passionate, and provocative novella that plunges readers into the glittering yet corrupt heart of 19th-century Paris. As part of Balzac's vast literary panorama, La Comédie Humaine, this intense narrative explores obsession, sensuality, power, and the hidden decadence beneath aristocratic refinement. The story follows Henri de Marsay, a ... Read more

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  • Lost Illusions

    Series series World Classics
    Lucien Chardon, the son of a lower middle-class father and an impoverished mother of remote aristocratic descent, is the pivotal figure of the entire work. Living at Angouleme, he is impoverished, impatient, handsome and ambitious. His widowed mother, his sister Eve and his best friend, David Sechard, do nothing to lessen his high opinion of his own talents, for it is an opinion they share. ... Read more

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  • Collected Works of Honore de Balzac with the Complete Human Comedy (A to Z Classics)

    The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). The Comédie humaine consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It ... Read more

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  • Pere Goriot (Translated by Ellen Marriage with an Introduction by R. L. Sanderson)

    Considered to be one of Balzac’s most important works, “Pere Goriot” is the story of its title character Jean-Joachim Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac. We are introduced to the characters at Maison Vauquer, a boarding house owned by the widow Madame Vauquer. Central to the theme of the book is the struggle to achieve upper ... Read more

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  • Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honore de Balzac, 1833-1846

    "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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  • Seraphita

    Series Book 24 - French Classic Literature
    Séraphîta (French pronunciation: [seʁafita]) is a French novel by Honoré de Balzac with themes of androgyny. It was published in the Revue de Paris in 1834. In contrast with the realism of most of the author's best known works, the story delves into the fantastic and the supernatural to illustrate philosophical themes.In a castle in Norway near the fjord Stromfjord, Séraphitüs, a strange and ... Read more

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  • Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans

    Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans is one of Honoré de Balzac's most gripping and ambitious novels, a powerful installment in his monumental literary cycle, La Comédie Humaine. Set in the dazzling yet treacherous world of 19th-century Paris, this sweeping narrative exposes the glittering façade of high society and the moral decay festering beneath its surface. At the center of the story is ... Read more

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  • FERRAGUS, CHIEF OF THE DEVORANTS

    The story revolves around the character of Monsieur de Maulincour, a military officer who becomes infatuated with a mysterious woman, Fanny Beaupré. Fanny is married to a man known as Ferragus, the leader of a criminal gang called the Devorants. As the plot unfolds, Monsieur de Maulincour becomes entangled in a web of intrigue and danger as he seeks to understand the relationship between Fanny and ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Honore de Balzac

    Ambition, society, and the intricate world of human desire. In The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac, Honoré de Balzac presents a sweeping collection of stories and novels that capture the complexities of life in 19th-century France. This extensive volume brings together some of Balzac's most influential writings, offering vivid portrayals of society, from the struggles of the poor to the ... Read more

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