...Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic C... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nothing of the strange story which made la Tinti an object of curiosity in Italy, and Emilio briefly repeated it. This illustrious singer had been a m... ...the year before, and had en- chanted the three most fastidious capitals of Italy. “I am perfectly certain that her great nobleman is not my husband,” ... ...ss set out at once for V enice, to be present at the opening of the winter season. So one fine evening in November, the new Prince of Varese was cross... ...for the living Prince Varese! Genovese, the famous tenor, could get in one season, by his warbling, the capital of an income on which this son of the ...

...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into t...

...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...agrant breath of her briony paths, filled with the flowers of each passing season, exhales at every step; she fills your mind, she calls to you like s... ...with vegetation,—a bouquet, rose, brown, yellow, or blue, according to the season. The door, of oak, nail-studded, gives entrance to a noble hall, at ... ...n women; but instead of pos- sessing the tall figures and swaying lines of Italy and Spain, they are usually short, close-knit, well set-up and firm, ... ...e under a pseudonym, and his first publications were those of an adorer of Italy. T ravel was the one form of educa- tion which Felicite lacked. A man...

...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...himself, “Where is he? What is he doing?” He thought that the Count was in Italy with the fair Duchesse de Maufrigneuse. When every franc of a man’s f... ...iest man under the sun. He had been to the baths, he had been traveling in Italy with Mme. de Maufrigneuse, and now sent his journal to his aunt. Ever... ...him as they floated together on the breast of the amorous Queen of Italian seas. But even in that moment of bliss, such as angels know, some one ap- p... ...een a border on either side. Those bor- ders were always renewed; at every season of the year they exhibited a successful show of blossom, to the admi...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

...Droll Stories Volume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State ... ...Droll Stories Volume I: The First T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Ele... ...st T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ries Publication Droll Stories, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Por... ...s Publication Droll Stories, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portab... ...ries, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...d loyal knight, and enjoyed himself thor- oughly in these lands beyond the seas, since he more will- ingly gave a crown to the girls than to the poor,... ...ff, he will count against those I in- considerately slaughtered across the seas”; oftentimes, how- ever, he would let them bravely hang on a chestnut ... ...only sixteen, he took this gallantry as a reproach. Now on his return from Italy the Cadet of Maille found the slipper of marriage ready for his foot,...

...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy exp...

...OW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR............................

...Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...the elbow of the road where it turns back upon itself like those called in Italy “cornice,” the notary looked about to see if any one could overhear h... ... This eminence, or line of hills, which coasts the Seine from Rouen to the seashore, leaving a margin of valley land more or less narrow between itsel... ... are the wonder of architects and sculptors. It was eight o’clock. At that season twilight was still shed- ding its last gleams; there was not a cloud... ...that Modeste was indeed a child of earth, and not a creation dreamed of in Italy by the angelic school. Her lips, delicate yet full, were slightly moc...

Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nd hideous nation—sublime in its mechanical intelligence, pa- tient in its season, and once in a century terrible, inflam- mable as gunpowder, and rip... ...ld, illuminates it through the hundred mouths of her tribunes, ploughs the seas of science, rides with full sail, cries from the height of her tops, w... ...hereas, it is the ideal woman, to be seen sometimes in reality in Spain or Italy, almost never in France. Well, I have again seen this girl of the gol...

...Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm...

...A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e outdone by the progress of new lights. Since the beginning of the summer season he had talked much of a certain large coach, ordered from Farry, Bre... ...k, had ended by becom- ing a life of incessant toil. The count rose at all seasons by four o’clock in the morning, and worked till mid-day, at- tended... ...ell to sell it. Monsieur Schinner must have seen how things are tending in Italy, where the taxes are enormous.” “Corpo di Bacco! the Pope is laying i...

Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ll (what an idea!), hang flowering plants, blue or yellow according to the season. Les Aigues must certainly have been built by a woman, or for a woma... ...ate things! When the world turns upside down like an hour- glass, when the seas become continents, Frenchmen will find canons, steamboats, newspapers,... ...are spots where the grass keeps green all the year. Such fields, called in Italy “marciti,” are of great value; though in France they are often in dan... ...that name, who fell in one of Bonaparte’s first victories with the army of Italy. Tall and strong, he belonged to the class of soldiers accustomed, li...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...onic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE IN 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a youth who was wanderin... ...an of science told the man of faith that the only cure lay in a journey to Italy. The Abbe would not hear of such a journey before Esther’s baptism an... ...nce an expression of jeal- ousy grander and more complete than England and Italy together could imagine. This look, seen by Esther, made her clutch th... ...ed to pass for a tippling En- glishman; he never went out till he was half-seas over. He wore black cloth gaiters up to his knees, and padded to make ...

Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...oth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...editors, who will put a ‘P’* on the bills, and I shall live comfortably in Italy for the rest of my days as the Conte Ferraro. I was alone with him wh... ...leave Portsmouth with a wealthy English family on board, who were going to Italy, and the passage-money had been paid in the name of the Conte Ferraro... ...he wings of demons above African desert spaces, or skim the surface of the seas. The same insight that could read the inmost 34 Melmoth Reconciled th...

...Excerpt: There is a special variety of human nature obtained in the Social Kingdom by a process analogous to that of the gardener?s craft in the Vegetable Kingdom, to wit, by the forcing-house--a species of hybrid which can be raised neither from seed nor from ...

...A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...llen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of th... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... criminal thought, M. d’Aiglemont’s widow will enter a convent in Spain or Italy. By an evil chance we have spo- ken of our love; perhaps that confess... ...larity of destiny is nearly always a strong bond of union. “Is the hunting season not over yet?” asked Julie, with an indifferent glance at her husban... ...bach, he wished to take advantage of the opportunity to make some study of Italy on the way. This ball was a sort of farewell to Paris and its amuseme... ...with which a winter evening sparkles. No one played the philosopher out of season. Secure in the protec- tion of an old soldier, women and children ga...

Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ul poem of sorrow. Where will you find a work of genius floating above the seas of literature that can compare with this paragraph: “Yesterday, at f... ...ous lavas from Vesuvius and Etna, his fancy fled to the hot tawny south of Italy. He was present at Borgia’s orgies, he roved among the Abruzzi, sough... ...ents have been intellec- tual joys. I have reveled in the contemplation of seas, peoples, forests, and mountains! I have seen all things, calmly, and ... ...riking resemblance to the noble one that Carlo Dolci chose for the type of Italy. My cruel memory brought her back athwart the dissipations of my exis...

...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...