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GebondenEngels9780192846709
25-8-2022
A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.
A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic novels of the Human Comedy, which give us the dynamics of a new and challenging world on the threshold of modernity. Meer
paperbackNederlands118 blz.9789403887937
21-4-2026
Wat gebeurt er wanneer een man, officieel gestorven op het slagveld, jaren later terugkeert naar de wereld van de levenden? In Kolonel Chabert vertelt Honoré de Balzac een aangrijpend en psychologisch diep verhaal over identiteit, rechtvaardigheid en menselijke waardigheid. Meer
paperbackNederlands108 blz.9789403880389
18-3-2026
In het hart van Parijs woont Gobseck, een oude en raadselachtige geldschieter die bekendstaat om zijn koude logica en zijn onverzadigbare liefde voor goud. Meer
e-bookNederlands73 blz.9789025307974
4-7-2017
Kolonel Chabert heeft voor Napoleon een belangrijke overwinning bevochten, maar wordt schijndood op het slagveld aangetroffen en belandt in een massagraf. Meer
e-bookNederlands736 blz.9789028230002
11-11-2019
De jonge ambitieuze dichter Lucien Chardon trekt naar Parijs, waar hij hoop te kunnen debuteren. Hij maakt kennis met intellectuelen en journalisten, hoertjes en cocottes, toneelspelers en met elkaar concurrerende uitgevers. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140443011
29-8-1974
The three short novels that make up this book are concerned in part with the activities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secret society in nineteenth-century France. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140443301
29-6-1977
Balzac is concerned with the choice between ruthless self-gratification and asceticism, dissipation and restraint, in a novel that is powerful in its symbolism and realistic depiction of decadence. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140442328
26-9-1985
Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140442373
27-5-1976
Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140443257
24-2-1977
Twelve stories are representative of the tragic, melodramatic, sentimental, pathetic, and comic aspects of Balzac's art and testify to his keen sense of irony when observing the human condition. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140440508
2-12-2004
In a gloomy house in provincial Saumur, the miser Grandet lives with his wife and daughter, Eugenie, whose lives are stifled and overshadowed by his obsession with gold. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140441604
2-12-2004
Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780099560869
7-4-2011
Monsieur Grandet is a very rich man whose chief care is his gold. He runs his household with exacting miserly attention and his wife and daughter suffer a Spartan existence. Meer