Short e-books (30min to read) of Honoré de Balzac

"The whole show is dreadful," she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin.

Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other fr...

"Ah!

On the 22nd of January, 1793, towards eight o'clock in the evening, an old lady came down the steep street that comes to an end opposite the Church of Saint Laurent in the Faubourg Saint Martin.

By Honore De Balzac Translated By Clara Bell and James Waring TO THE READER At the very outset of the writer's literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study.

Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to whi...

I once used to live in a little street which probably is not known to you--the Rue de Lesdiguieres.

Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future.

A STREET OF PARIS AND ITS INHABITANT BY HONORE DE BALZAC ...

Whenever you have gone to take a serious look at the exhibition of works of sculpture and painting, such as it has been since the revolution of 1830, have you not been seized by a sense of uneasine...

The clock of the little town of Menda had just struck midnight.

The word _lorette_ is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to...

At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other.

At times they saw him, by a phenomenon of vision or locomotion, abolish space in its two forms of Time and Distance; the former being intellectual space, the other physical space.

The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been brought up in the spirit of the Restoration.

Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by tho...

La Grenadiere is a little house on the right bank of the Loire as you go down stream, about a mile below the bridge of Tours.

GAUDISSART II. By Honore De Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and Others DEDICATION To Madame la Princesse Cristina de Belgiojoso, nee Trivulzio.

I have always longed to tell a simple and true story, which should strike terror into two young lovers, and drive them to take refuge each in the other's heart, as two children cling together at th...