La comédie humaine / by Honoré de Balzac ; now for the first time completely translated into English.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Standardized Title:

Comédie humaine. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

53 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed only for subscribers by G. Barrie & Son, c1896-1900.

Contents:

v.1-11. Scenes of Parisian life:

1-2. The splendors and miseries of courtesans: The way that girls love. - How much love costs old men. - The end of bad roads. - The last incarnation of Vautrin.

3-4. The poor relations: Cousin Bette.

5. The poor relations: Cousin Pons.

6. History of the thirteen: Ferragus, chief of the dévorants. - La duchesse de Langeais.

7. History of the frandeur and downfall of César Birotteau.

8. The civil service: Gaudissart II. - A prince of Bohemia.

9. The house of Nucingen. - The secrets of la princesse de Cadignan. - Sarrasine. - Facino Cane. - A man of business. - The involuntary comedians.

10 -11. The petty bourgeois.

v.12-22. Scenes of private life:

12. The house of the car and racket. - The dance at Sceaux. - The purse. - The vendetta.

13. Memoirs of two young wives.

14. Modeste Mignon.

15. A start in life. - Madame Firmiani. The message. - The atheist's mass.

16. Albert Savarus. - A daughter of Eve.

17. The marriage contract. - La grenadière. - Gobseck.

18. A woman of thirty. - The deserted mistress.

19. Old Goriot.

20. Honorine. - Colonel Chabert. - The interdiction.

21. Béatrix.

22. A double family. - The peace of the household. - A study of woman. - Another study of woman. - The pretended mistress.

v.23-32. Scenes of provincial life:

23. Ursule Mirouët.

24 -25. The Celibates: Pierrette. - The curé de Tours. - La rabouilleuse.

26. Eugénie Grandet.

27. The lily of the valley.

28. The illustrious Gaudissart. - The muse of the department.

29. The old maid. - The cabinet of antiquities.

30-32. Lost illusions: The two poets. - A provincial great man in Paris. - The trials of an inventor.

v.33-37. Scenes of military and political life:

33. The Chouans.

34. A passion in the desert. - An episode under the reign of terror. - A dark affair.

35. Z. Marcas. - The other side of contemporaneous history: 1. Madame de la Chanterie. - 2. The novice.

36-37. The deputy from Arcis.

v.38-40. Scenes of country life:

38. The country doctor.

39. The village curé.

40. The peasants.

v.41-49. Philosophic and analytic studies:

41. The magic skin.

42. Jesus Christ in Flanders. - Melmoth converted. - The elixir of long life. - Seraphita.

43. The unknown masterpiece. - The Maranas. - A seashore drama. - The red inn. - Master Cornelius.

44. Gambara. - Massimilla Doni. - The accursed child.

45. The quest of the absolute.

46. Adieu. - The conscript. - The executioner. - The exiles. - Louis Lambert.

47. Catherine de' Medici.

48-49. Physiology of marriage. - Petty worries of conjugal life.

v.50-51. Repertory of La comédie humaine.

v.52-53. Les contes drolatiques.

Local Notes:

"Limited to one thousand complete copies. No. 441."

OCLC:

248869868