The Wild Ass's Skin
Honoré de Balzac and Patrick Coleman
‘Who possesses me will possess all things, But his life will belong to me. . .’ Raphael de Valentin, a young aristocrat, has lost all his money in the gaming parlours of the Palais Royal in ...
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories
Honoré de Balzac and Patrick Coleman
‘What holds sway over this country without morals, beliefs, or feelings? Gold and pleasure.’ Sexual attraction, artistic insight, and the often ironic relationship between them is the ...
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Cousin Bette
Honoré de Balzac and David Bellos
Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating ...
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