Balzac’s Cane (French science fiction Book 136) by Delphine de Girardin, Brian Stableford (Adapted by, Translator) Requirements: .ePUB reader, 318 KBOverview: What reason had persuaded Monsieur de Balzac to load himself down with that club? Why did he always carry it with him? For reasons of elegance, infirmity, mania or necessity? Did it conceal an […]
The Last Fay (French science fiction Book 180) by Honoré de Balzac, Brian Stableford (Adapted By, Translator) Requirements: .ePUB reader, 528 KBOverview: An alchemist, his family and his valet, Caliban, settle in an isolated village. After their deaths, their young son, Abel, who has read only fairy tales, falls in love with a local girl, […]
Lost Illusions by Honoré de BalzacRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 2.5 MbOverview: Lost Illusions, by Honore de Balzac, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of […]
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieRequirements: .ePUB reader, 182KBOverview: An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find […]
Balzac’s Lives by Peter BrooksRequirements: .ePUB Reader, 875 KBOverview: Enter the mind of French literary giant Honoré de Balzac through a study of nine of his greatest characters and the novels they inhabit. Balzac’s Lives illuminates the writer’s life, era, and work in a completely original way.Balzac, more than anyone, invented the nineteenth-century novel, and […]