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The Complete Harvard Classics Library Shelf of Fiction (2011)
by Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Ivan Turgenev, Edgar Allan Poe, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nathaniel Hawthorne
EXCLUSIVE AND UNPARALLELED COLLECTION OF THE WORLD'S BEST NOVELS, SHORT STORIES AND POEMS!!! THE COMPLETE HARVARD CLASSICS LIBRARY - "THE SHELF OF FICTION" <ILLUSTRATED> Selected by Harvard University scholars and fully revised and updated for 2011 200 OF THE GREATEST WORKS EVER WRITTEN... (learn more about this book)
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The Thirteen: Book 1Ferragus (2006)
by Honoré de Balzac
To tell the truth, there is more power than taste throughout the Histoire des Treize, and perhaps not very much less unreality than power. Balzac is very much better than Eugene Sue, though Eugene Sue also is better than it is the fashion to think him just now. But he is here, to a certain... (learn more about this book)
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Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Parisian Life: Book 18Sarrasine (2004)
by Honoré de Balzac
They lowered their voices and walked away in order to talk more at their ease on some retired couch. Never was a more promising mine laid open to seekers after mysteries. No one knew from what country the Lanty family came, nor to what source--commerce, extortion, piracy, or inheritance--they... (learn more about this book)
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The Thirteen: Book 3The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1998)
by Honoré de Balzac
This thrilling work explores the dark side o f Parisian society and is part of a trilogy of novellas that make up Balzac''s important History of the Thirteen. ' (learn more about this book)
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The Black Sheep (1970)
by Honoré de Balzac
Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career in Napoleon's army. His younger... (learn more about this book)
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Comedie Humaine: Scenes from Parisian Life: Book 11The Duchesse de Langeais (1887)
by Honoré de Balzac
In The Duchesse of Langeais, Honore De Balzac tells us the story of an ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a Napoleonic war hero. The depth of character is astonishing and the writing superb. (learn more about this book)
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The Human Comedy: Book 18Cousin Bette (1846)
by Honoré de Balzac
“Bette is a wronged soul; and when her passion does break, it is, as Balzac says, sublime and terrifying,” wrote V. S. Pritchett. A late masterpiece in Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine, Cousin Bette is the story of a Vosges peasant who rebels against her scornful upper-class relatives, skillfully... (learn more about this book)
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The Human Comedy: Book 9Lost Illusions (1844)
by Honoré de Balzac
Lucien Chardon, a young poet trying to make a name for himself in Paris, is befriended by aristocratic patrons but finds himself relentlessly drawn to the low life of the big city. (learn more about this book)
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The Human Comedy: Book 15Ursula (1842)
by Honoré de Balzac
"Ursula" (original French title "Ursule Mirouet," 1842) forms one part of "Scenes from Provincial Life," a series of novels-whose other major work is "Eugenie Grandet"-examining manners and morals in the French provinces. --- Among all the novels of Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), none depicts so... (learn more about this book)
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