Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: thirty, woman
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0554308614
ISBN-13: 9780554308616

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A HIDDEN GRIEF. Between the Seine and the little river Loing lies a wide flat country, skirted on the one side by the Forest of Fontaine- bleau, and marked out as to its southern limits by the towns of Moret, Montereau, and Nemours. It is a dreary country; little knolls of hills appear only at rare intervals, and a coppice here and there among the fields affords cover for game; and beyond, upon every side, stretch

Author: Honoré De Balzac
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: lambert, louis
Number of Pages: 74
Published: 2010-03-06
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1153745828
ISBN-13: 9781153745826

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / French;

Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: medici, catherine
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-08-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0554308819
ISBN-13: 9780554308814

Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: vendetta
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 141919240X
ISBN-13: 9781419192401

When the painter and Ginevra thought themselves alone, Servin rapped in a peculiar manner on the door of the dark garret, which turned at once on its rusty and creaking hinges. Ginevra then saw a tall and well-made young man, whose Imperial uniform set her heart to beating. The officer had one arm in a sling.

Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: pons, cousin
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2009-10-03
List price: $33.75
ISBN-10: 1115838202
ISBN-13: 9781115838207

Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man’s inheritance. Taki

Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Wildside Pre
Keywords: valley, lily
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 143449134X
ISBN-13: 9781434491343

This volume contains Balzac’s novel "The Lily of the Valley."

Author: Honore de Balzac
Publisher: Signet Classics
Keywords: classics, signet, goriot, pere
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1962-08-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0451521900
ISBN-13: 9780451521903

This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.