The Works Of Honore De Balzac Poor Relations Cousin Betty Cousin Pons

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Penguin Group
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Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Cousin Bette written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousin Bette (1846), long considered Balzac's last great novel, is a key work in his Comedie humaine. Grounded in a meticulous documentation of contemporary France, this tale is set in the prosperous Paris of Louis-Phillipe and details a jealous woman's campaign of persecution against her ownfamily. This new translation has an introduction by David Bellos which sets this work in its social, historical, and literary context.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book Poor relations: Cousin Betty, Cousin Pons written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor Relations written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poor Relations" portrays the lives of impoverished people living in Paris in the early 19th century. The story revolves around the Marneffe and Fischer families as they struggle to maintain their social status and navigate through a society that is largely driven by wealth and social standing.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN 13 : 9781634210058
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Poor Relations written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diptych is part of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece, The Human Comedy. It comprises two stories, Cousin Betty and Cousin Pons, each of which delve deeply into complicated family dynamics and the long-lasting impact of seemingly trivial conflicts.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 677 pages
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Download or read book The Poor Relations: Cousin Betty & Cousin Pons written by Honoré de Balzac and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cousin Betty" – Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please Valérie, who leaves him for a tradesman named Crevel. "Cousin Pons" – Sylvain Pons, a musician in a Parisian boulevard orchestra, has two failings: his passion for collecting works of art and his passion for good food. Being a gourmet, Pons much enjoys dining regularly with his wealthy lawyer cousins M. and Mme Camusot de Marville. To remain on good terms with the Camusots, he tries to find a man for their unappealing daughter Cécile, but when this falls through, he is banished. However, when Mme Camusot learns of the value of Pons's art collection she strives to obtain possession of it as the basis of a dowry for her daughter. In this new development of the plot a bitter struggle ensues between various vulture-like figures, all of whom are keen to lay their hands on the collection.

Author : Honore De Balzac
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781346510316
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book The Poor Relations written by Honore De Balzac and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
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Download or read book The poor relations: v. 25. Cousin Bette. v. 26. Cousin Pons written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Honoré de Balzac
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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book The Poor Relations, Second Episode written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvain Pons, a musician in a Parisian boulevard orchestra, has a close friend in another musician from that same orchestra, the German pianist Wilhelm Schmucke. They lodge with Mme Cibot, but Pons--unlike Schmucke--has two failings: his passion (which is almost a mania) for collecting works of art, and his passion for good food. Schmucke, on the other hand, has only one passion, and that is his affection for Pons. Pons, being a gourmet, much enjoys dining regularly with his wealthy lawyer cousins M. and Mme Camusot de Marville, for their food is more interesting than Mme Cibot's and full of gastronomic surprises. In an endeavour to remain on good terms with the Camusots, and to repay their favour, he tries to find a bridegroom for their unappealing only child Cécile. However, when this ill-considered marriage project falls through, Pons is banished from the house. From this event, Pon's art collection becomes the focus of a series of plots that ultimately lead to both Pons' and Schumcke's downfalls.

Author : Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727859935
Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book Poor Relations written by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diptych is part of Honore de Balzac's epic masterpiece, The Human Comedy. It comprises two stories, "Cousin Betty" and "Cousin Pons," each of which delve deeply into complicated family dynamics and the long-lasting impact of seemingly trivial conflicts.

Author : Honore Balzac
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442052
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Cousin Pons written by Honore Balzac and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mild, harmless and ugly to behold, the impoverished Pons is an ageing musician whose brief fame has fallen to nothing. Living a placid Parisian life as a bachelor in a shared apartment with his friend Schmucke, he maintains only two passions: a devotion to fine dining in the company of wealthy but disdainful relatives, and a dedication to the collection of antiques. When these relatives become aware of the true value of his art collection, however, their sneering contempt for the parasitic Pons rapidly falls away as they struggle to obtain a piece of the weakening man's inheritance. Taking its place in the Human Comedy as a companion to Cousin Bette, the darkly humorous Cousin Pons is among of the last and greatest of Balzac's novels concerning French urban society: a cynical, pessimistic but never despairing consideration of human nature.