French Classics in French and English: The Shagreen Skin by Honor de Balzac (Dual-Language Book), Balzac Honore de, Marriage Ellen, Vassiliev Alexander

Автор: Balzac, Honore De
Название: Old Goriot
ISBN: 1857150376 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857150377
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: In this novel of obsessive passion the author tells stories of Old Goriot and the ungrateful daughters he adores; young Rastignac, a country lad determined to make his way in Paris; and Vautrin, his satanic tempter. Their lives all cross in the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris.

Автор: De Balzac Honore
Название: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
ISBN: 1590176642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781590176641
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: An NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life--lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists, actresses, swindlers, misers, parasites, sexual adventurers, crackpots, and more--move through the pages of "The Human Comedy," Balzac's multivolume magnum opus, an interlinked chronicle of modernity in all its splendor and squalor. "The Human Comedy" includes the great roomy novels that have exercised such a sway over Balzac's many literary inheritors, from Dostoyevsky and Henry James to Marcel Proust; it also contains an array of short fictions in which Balzac is at his most concentrated and forceful. Nine of these, all newly translated, appear in this volume, and together they provide an unequaled overview of a great writer's obsessions and art. Here are "The Duchesse de Langeais," "A Passion in the Desert," and "Sarrasine"; tales of madness, illicit passion, ill-gotten gains, and crime. What unifies them, Peter Brooks points out in his introduction, is an incomparable storyteller's fascination with the power of storytelling, while throughout we also detect what Proust so admired: the "mysterious circulation of blood and desire."