Balzac, Honoré de

  • Cousin Bette

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    “Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Com?die Humaine, Cousin Bette is the… [more below]

    • Series: Modern Library Classics
    • Author: Balzac, Honoré de
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: February 12 2002
    • ISBN10: 0375759077
    • Language: English
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes

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    In this influential novella, regarded as one of Balzac’s greatest works, a dissolute aristocrat competes with a shadowy rival for the love of an enigmatic golden-eyed woman–a crazed and annihilating [more below]

    • Author: Balzac, Honoré de
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: July 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1681379066
    • Language: English
  • The Lily in the Valley

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    A new translation of one of Balzac’s finest novels, this tale of misguided passion centers on a young aristocrat who falls into a cloaked, coded entanglement with an older countess–a relationship tha[more below]

    • Author: Balzac, Honor? de
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: July 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 1681377985
    • Language: English
  • The Wild Ass’s Skin

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    The first new English translation for more than 35 years of Balzac’s extraordinary The Wild Ass’s Skin, it is also the first edition in English to include Balzac’s original Preface of 1831. This novel… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Balzac, Honoré de
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: June 18 2012
    • ISBN10: 0199579504
    • Language: English
  • Père Goriot

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    This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his p… [more below]

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