Droll Stories: Selected Tales. Selected Tales, Paperback - Honore de Balzac

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Twelve stories are representative of the tragic, melodramatic, sentimental, pathetic, and comic aspects of Balzac's art and testify to his keen sen...

Reducere. Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting...

Selected Tales contains some of the most timeless and enchanting folk and fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, translated with an introduct...

An NYRB Classics Original Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life--lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerk...

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Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created ma...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmTranslator: Joyce CrickNumber of pages: 416Collection: Oxford World's ClassicsP...

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Reducere. Sarrasine (1831) is a novella by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, Sarrasine is one of Balzac's e...

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 s...

Reducere. Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being th...

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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. ...

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Publisher: GallimardAuthor(s): Honore de BalzacPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 178 x 112 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul...

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DescriptionHandsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and na ve, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown,...

Billy Budd is among the greatest of Melville's works and, in its richness and ambiguity, among the most problematic. Outwardly a compelling narrati...

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DescriptionCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and...

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DescriptionFinance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which int...

This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, ...

Pons is an ageing musician, and believes that fame has fallen to nothing. Living with his friend, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fin...

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The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationsh...

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The entire world has been transformed due to a pandemic. The scope of sadness and destruction is far-reaching and wide. However, focus the world's ...

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horro...

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Urmarind povestea tanarului poet Lucien Chardon, a relatiilor si a incercarilor sale de ascensiune sociala, descoperim in Iluzii pierdute o fresca ...

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Features short stories.Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Hans FalladaNumber of pages: 320Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: ...

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