Author:Honoré de Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac
(1799–1850)

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Nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities

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• Adieu
• Folk-Tales of Napoleon
• La Muse du Département
  • St. Bretache: The Surgeon's Tale, translation by Mary Ann Youatt (1845) (transcription project)

• Author's Introduction to The Human Comedy, 1842

(See also Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine for a comprehensive index of characters.)

• At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
• The Ball at Sceaux
• The Purse
• The Vendetta
• Madame Firmiani
• A Second Home
• Domestic Peace
• The Imaginary Mistress
• Study of a Woman
• Another Study of a Woman
• La Grand Breteche
• Albert Savarus
• Letters of Two Brides
• A Daughter of Eve
• A Woman of Thirty
• The Deserted Woman
• La Grenadiere
• The Message
• Gobseck
• A Marriage Contract
• A Start in Life
• Modeste Mignon
• Beatrix
• Honorine
• Colonel Chabert
• The Atheist's Mass
• The Commission in Lunacy
• Pierre Grassou

• Ursule Mirouet
• Eugénie Grandet
• The Celibates:
  • Pierrette
  • The Vicar of Tours
• A Bachelor's Establishment
• Parisians in the Country:
  • The Illustrious Gaudissart
  • The Muse of the Department
• The Jealousies of a Country Town
  • The Old Maid
  • The Collection of Antiquities
• The Lily of the Valley
• Lost Illusions (Les Illusions perdues)
  • The Two Poets
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  • Eve and David

• Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
  • Esther Happy
  • What Love Costs an Old Man
  • The End of Evil Ways
  • Vautrin's Last Avatar
• A Prince of Bohemia
• A Man of Business
• Gaudissart II.
• The Unconscious Comedians
• The Thirteen
  • Ferragus
  • The Duchesse de Langeais
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes
• Father Goriot
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
• The Firm of Nucingen
• The Secrets of a Princess
• The Government Clerks
• Sarrasine
• Facino Cane
• Poor Relations
  • Cousin Bette
  • Cousin Pons
• The Middle Classes

• The Gondreville Mystery or An Historical Mystery (transcription project)
• An Episode Under the Terror
• The Seamy Side of History or The Brotherhood of Consolation
  • Madame de la Chanterie
  • Initiated or The Initiate
• Z. Marcas
• The Member for Arcis or The Deputy for Arcis

• The Chouans
• A Passion in the Desert (see also "A Passion in the Desert" in The Strand Magazine, 1 (2) (February 1891))

• The Country Doctor
• The Country Parson or The Village Rector
• The Peasantry or Sons of the Soil

• The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin)
• The Quest of the Absolute or The Alkahest
• Christ in Flanders
• Melmoth Reconciled
• The Unknown Masterpiece or The Hidden Masterpiece (1834) translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Hated Son
• Gambara
• Massimilla Doni
• The Maranas or Juana
• Farewell
• The Conscript or The Recruit
• El Verdugo
• A Seaside Tragedy or A Drama on the Seashore
• The Red Inn
• The Elixir of Life
• Maitre Cornelius
• Catherine de Medici
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
• Louis Lambert
• Les Proscrits (1831)
  • The Exiles, translation by Clara Bell (1899)
  • The Exiles, translation by William Walton (1897)
  • The Exiles, translation by Katherine Wormeley (1893)
• Seraphita

• The Physiology of Marriage
• Pathology of the Social Life

• Introduction and brief biography of Honore de Balzac (1901), by George Saintsbury
• Balzac as a Dramatist (1901), by Epiphanius Wilson
• Introduction to The Works of Honoré de Balzac, volume 34 (1901), by J. Walker McSpadden
• Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings (1904), by Mary Frances Sandars
• Balzac (1910), by Frederick Lawton
• "Balzac, Honoré de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Balzac, Honore de," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• Honoré de Balzac (1914), by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, translated by Frederic Taber Cooper
• Balzac in The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1919), by Arthur Symons
• Women in the Life of Balzac (1921), by Juanita Helm Floyd
• Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules François Christophe, translated by Joseph Walker McSpadden