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Excerpt: Seraphita by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Co... ...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comed... ...s Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Por... ...eries Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portab... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents HONORE DE BALZAC ............................................................. ... & Appendix The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac HONORE DE BALZAC “Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, h... ...ght be possible to coast about it, to hint at it, by adum- brations and in consequences. But it is better and really more helpful to face the difficul... ... devised a system as hit upon a manner in the ardor of his work, or as its logical outcome, he never thought of connecting his com- positions in such ...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ...

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...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ith no future but my courage and my faculties? I did not then think of the consequences of the Restoration either for me or for others. On Sunday morn... ...nd it will win you the favor of women, who will respect you for the little consequence that you attach to men. Never remain in company with those who ... ...s of a mother.” “My dear,” said the count, who took it into his head to be logical, “what you say signifies that women who have no children would have... ...your lives on our account. It is for us to die, for you to live, great and honored. For us the dagger in your hand; for you our pardoning love. Does t... ...ho strikes without warning and spares you a struggle? Why a happy life, an honored life, to the murderer who drop by drop pours gall into the soul and...

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...Excerpt: One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. A word as to this lady, the most important lady of Besancon....

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...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had sent away his carriage, and...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy experiment....

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...Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ...er in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal, and hair-oil, and was only too much honored when my only daughter was married to the son of Monsieur le Baron H... ...arneffe had just said concerning Lisbeth Fischer they had come to know, in consequence, partly, of the loneliness of the neighborhood, and of the alli... ...itious married courtesans who from the first accept depravity with all its consequences, and determine to make a fortune while taking their pleasure, ... ...rything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived the life of nature, at... ...uld leave me alone on condition of being head- clerk. It is abominable—but logical.” “Valerie, do you love me?” “In the state in which I am, my dear, ...

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...Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...d by Charles IX. on the day of Saint- Bartholomew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he call... ...n she began to speak. But Lucien, to the joy and surprise of his old love, honored her with inattention; her words fell unheeded on his ears; he sat l... ...ed a mere trifle of her. He was very careful besides to say nothing of the consequences of that trifle. She was only to carry a letter and a message, ... ...; the second is the suicide of despair; and the third the suicide based on logical argument. Despair and deductive reasoning had brought Lucien to thi... ...e protest, “but we do not wish to be obliged to pay cash for everything in consequence of slanders that shake our credit; THAT would bring us to a sta...

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...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ng that his comrades were blackguards, whose opinion would never be of any consequence to him if by chance they survived the present war, which seemed... ...red all the others: the joyous, girlish kiss of a daughter to a mother, an honored mother, a mother in whom shone all the domestic virtues. 16 Juana ... ...ed! She can have nothing more to lose.” Bitter reflection! rakes alone are logical and will punish a woman for devotion. Man created Satan and Lovelac... ...ermaster, rich as he was, was allowed no place in public life, and society logically refused him that to which he pretended in its midst. Finally, to ... ...r to fall upon her head. She judged her husband incapable of rising to the honored ranks of the social order, and she felt that he would one day desce...

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...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...age A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...fts, I will make you richer, more powerful, and of more 26 The Magic Skin consequence than a constitutional king.” The young man thought that the old... ...e is a great man; let us say no more about him.” “You are all drunk!” “The consequence of a Constitution is the immediate stul- tification of intellec... ...ong of songs that obscure genius is for ever singing; I want to come, in a logical manner, by the reason of the frequent successes of mediocrity. Alas... ...the standing of everybody, and uses every one for his own benefit. Is this logical, or am I a madman after all? Haven’t you there all the moral of the...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...s epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? Look at the wretched little houses ... ...on a woman who held in horror all German sentimentalism. The young man, in consequence, distrusted himself, became dreamy, absorbed in his griefs, com... ...ming answer, he said to himself:— “But this man, so profoundly capable, so logical in his ev- ery act, who sees and foresees, who calculates, and even...