Honore de Balzac

From Cousin Bette to Eugenie Grandet to Pere Goriot to Droll Stories, this CD contains the complete text of 105 books by and about Honore de Balzac. All but one of these books are in English translation.

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Complete Table of Contents:

Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Books in English Translation

• Adieu, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Albert Savarus, translated to English by Ellen Mariage
• The Alkahest, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Analytical Studies
• Another Study of Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, translated to English by Clara Bell
• The Atheist's Mass, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• The Ball at Sceaux, translated to English by Clara Bell
• Beatrix, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Brotherhood of Consolation, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Bureaucracy, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Catherine de Medici, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Celibates translated by Katharine Prescott Wormely
• The Chouans, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Christ in Flanders, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
• The Collection of Antiquities, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Colonel Chabert, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
• The Commission in Lunacy, translated to English by Clara Bell
• The Country Doctor, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
• Cousin Betty, translated to English by James Waring
• Cousin Pons, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• A Daughter of Eve, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Deputy of Arcis, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Deserted Woman, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• A Distinguished Provincial in Paris (= Lost Illusions Part 2), translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Domestic Peace, translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
• A Drama on the Seashore, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• Droll Stories, in English
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Complete in one file
• The Duchesse de Langeais, in English
• The Elixir of Life, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring, short story
• An Episode under the Terror, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• Eugenie Grandet, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Eve and David, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• The Exiles, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
• Facino Cane, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• Farewell, in English
• Father Goriot, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Ferragus, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Firm of Nucingen, translated to English by James Waring
• Gambarra, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
• The Girl with the Golden Eyes, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Gobseck, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• La Grande Breteche (sequel to Another Study of Woman), translated to English by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, short story
• Gaudissart II, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• La Grenadiere, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
• The Hated Son, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Hidden Masterpiece, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• An Historical Mystery, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Honorine, translated to English by Clara Bell
• The Illustrious Gaudissart, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Jealousies of a Country Town translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Juana, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Lesser Bourgoisie by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Letters of Two Brides, translated to English by R.S. Scott
• The Lily of the Valley, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Lost Illusions
• Louis Lambert, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
• Madame Firmiani, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• The Magic Skin, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Maitre Cornelius, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• A Man of Business, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• The Marriage Contract, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Massimilla Doni, translated to English by Clara Bell and James Waring
• Melmoth Reconciled, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Mercadet, a comedy in three acts, 1851
• The Message, translated to English by Ellen Marriage, short story
• Modeste Mignon, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Muse of the Department, translated to English by James Waring
• An Old Maid, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley and Clara Bell
• The Napoleon of the People = excerpt from The Country Doctor (Le Medecin de Campagne
• translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell
• in Folk-Tales of Napoleon, translated by George Kennan, 1902
• Pamela Giraud (play)
• Parisians in the Country translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• A Passion in the Desert, translated to English by Ernest Dawson, short story
• Paz, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Petty Troubles of Married Life, in English
• Part 1
• Part 2
• The Physiology of Marriage, in English
• part 1
• part 2
• Pierre Grassou, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• Pierrette, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Poor Relations
• A Prince of Bohemia, translated to English by Clara Bell
• The Purse, translated to English by Clara Bell, short story
• The Recruit, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• The Red Inn, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Resources of Quinola (play)
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Sarrasine, translated to English by Clara Bell
• Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, translated to English by James Waring
• A Second Home, translated to English by Clara Bell
• The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Seraphita, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Sons of the Soil, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• A Start in Life, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Stepmother, a drama in five acts
• A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant (story)
• Study of a Woman, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, short story
• The Thirteen
• Two Brothers, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Two Poets, tanslated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Unconscious Comedian, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Ursula, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Vautrin, play, in English
• Vendetta, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• El Verdugo, translated to English by Katharine Prescot Wormeley
• The Vicar of Tours, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• The Village Rector, translated to English by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• A Woman of Thirty, translated to English by Ellen Marriage
• Z. Marcas, translated to English by Clara Bell
about the Human Comedie
• Introductions and Appendix to the Human Comedy
• Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
• Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2
about Balzac
• Balzac by Frederick Lawton
• Honore de Blazac by Albert Keim and Louis Mumet, translated to English by Frederic Taber Cooper
• Honore de Balzac: His Life and Writings by Mary Sandars, 1904
• Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac by Epiphanus Wilson and J. Walker McSpadden
• Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

Books in French

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