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Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac; Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Created by)
$55.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Bette, a poor relation of the beautiful Adeline, nurses a terrible grudge against her cousin's family, on whom she depends. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot-and it is this weakness that will give the cunning Cousin Bette an oppor ...Show more
Droll Stories - Selected Tales by Honoré de Balzac
$11.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
These choice selections from Honor de Balzac's Droll Stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of sixteenth-century French life and manners. Told in the tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Rabelais, they allegedly originated in manuscripts from the abbeys of Touraine. Originally published in three sets ...Show more
Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac
Old Goriot by Honoré de Balzac; Ellen Marriage (Translator)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Honor de Balzac's great theme was money, and in his best-loved novel, Old Goriot, he explored its uses and abuses with the particularity of a poet. A shabby Parisian boarding house in 1819 is the setting where his colorful characters collide. These include an elderly retired merchant called Old Goriot, ...Show more
Ursule Mirouet by Honoré De Balzac
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 struggle and triumph of innocence reviled, Ursule Mirouet is chara ...Show more
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