The Complete Works of Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
This collection includes the following:
Seraphita. Louis Lambert, and other stories.
v. 2. About Catherine de Medici. Gambara.
v. 3. The physiology of marriage. Petty troubles of married life.
v. 4. The quest of the absolute, and other stories.
v. 5. Woman of thirty, and other stories.
v. 6. A marriage settlement. A start in life. A second home.
v. 7. Beatrix.
v. 8. The country doctor. The vendetta. Colonel Chabert.
v. 9-10. Scenes from a courtesan’s life. The government clerks.
v. 11. Cousin Betty.
v. 12. Cousin Pons.
v. 13. Modeste Mignon. The hated son. The atheist’s mass.
v. 14. At the sign of the cat and racket, The celebates, and other stories. V.15. A distinguished provincial at Paris.
v. 16. A bachelor’s establishment. Honorine.
v. 17. Father Goriot. The unconscious humorists. Parisians in the country.
v. 18. Ursule Mirouët. Massimilla Doni. A seaside tragedy. The red inn.
v. 19. The lily of the valley. The firm of Nucingen.
v. 20. A daughter of Eve. Letters of two brides.
v. 21. The magic skin. Christ in Flanders. Melmoth reconciled.
v. 22. The country parson. Albert Savarus.
v. 23. The thirteen.
v. 24. Lost illusions.
v. 25. The rise and fall of César Birotteau. The secrets of a princess. V.26. The middle classes.
v. 27. The jealousies of a country town.
The commission in lunacy.
v. 28. The Chouans. A passion in the desert.
v. 29. The Gondreville mystery. The muse of the department.
v. 30. The seamy side of history and other stories.
v. 31. The peasantry.
v. 32. Eugénie Grandet, and other stories.
v. 33. The member for Arcis.
v. 34-35. The dramas.
v. 36. Repertory of the Comédie humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe.