(Paperback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9780099560869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Monsieur 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.
(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781857150155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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Set in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century, it relates the story of the vengeful Bette who, along with her scheming accomplice Valrie Marneffe, sets out to ruin her extended family. Exploring themes of lust, greed and virtue, Balzac delivers a powerful, absorbing literary classic, and an unmissable read
(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781857150377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined to make his way in Paris; and Vautrin, his satanic tempter. Their lives all cross in the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris.
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9780451529596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A masterful study of a father whose sacrifices for his daughters have become a compulsion, this novel marks Balzac's "real entre" into La Comdie Humaine, his series of almost 100 novels and short stories meant to depict "the whole pell-mell of civilization." Reissue.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781590176641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: New York Review Books
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We think of Honore de Balzac as the author of long and fully upholstered novels, stitched together into the magnificent visionary document called The Human Comedy.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781681371252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9780940322745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2001
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."
(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9798888972960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Paperback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781634505116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781593082857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Fine Communications,US
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A series that offers quality editions of important works of literature to the student and the general reader, each featuring new scholarship and pages of carefully crafted extras. It pulls together a constellation of influences; biographical, historical and literary, to enrich each reader's understanding of these works.
(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9798888972953
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9781513205519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9798888972977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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(Hardback)
By: Honore De Balzac
ISBN: 9798888972984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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