The Wild Ass` Skin. the Chouans, and Other Stories- -[V.2] the Country Doctor. the Quest of the Absolute, and Other Stories, De Balzac Honore

Автор: Honore Balzac
Название: Old Goriot
ISBN: 0141023392 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023397
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers and everyone is out for what they can get. He sees a plan to make a fortune. Two women mysteriously come at night to visit him, Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves?

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."