Balzac, Honore de (1 - 10)
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| 1. |  | The Godfather from G. P. Putnam's Sons Customer Review:  by Emily Placido, author of Julita's Sands: A Memoir I read this powerful book many years after seeing the film. The movie is one of my favorites and I was leery about reading the book after loving the movie so much. I was not disappointed! This book is absolutely terrific!! It takes the reader... |
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| 2. | [no image] | A Passion in the Desert (Continental Classics) from Hippocrene Books Customer Review: I have not read the Kindle edition of this work, but this is undoubtedly one of the most controversial stories Balzac has produced. It must have caused one hell of a sensation when it was initially published. It certainly can't be considered "classical" Balzac in terms of the plot, but the imagery... |
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| 3. |  | Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions) from W. W. Norton & Company Customer Review: Norton has done a really fine job on its critical edition of PERE GORIOT. The translation is especially good, vivid and direct. The commentaries are well chosen and organized. Of particular interest are appreciations of Balzac by writers who were influenced by him, including Zola, Proust, Baudelaire... |
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| 4. |  | Lost Illusions (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Customer Review:  Whew, what a weighty, ambitious book! Through the tale of Lucien, a would-be writer who enters Paris society with his mistress and presumed benefactor (Mme. Bargeton) to seek fame and fortune, Balzac relentlessly exposes the materialistic, status-obsessed world of early 19th-century France. |
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| 5. |  | Cousin Bette (Modern Library Classics) from Modern Library Customer Review:  This review is for the Kindle formatting, not for the novel itself. Unfortunately the publisher has decided that the author should be alphabetized on the Kindle by his first name instead of his last name. Most of the Western world prefers to list authors by last name, but this publisher must be... |
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| 6. |  | Eugenie Grandet (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: Balzac's Eugenie Grandet cannot be spoiled, but the copy that I am reviewing is utterly spoiled by putting a womans's name on the cover where Balzac's name should be. Not one sniff of credit to Balzac any where on the cover! What has publishing come to? Had I known this before ordering, I would have... |
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| 7. |  | The Chouans from Book Jungle Customer Review: In places this novel reads as it were only a vulgar Romantic potboiler: the plot's chief-intrigue - the love affair between Mlle. Verneuil & the Royalist leader- is contrieved and somewhat mechanical. But one has to keep in mind this is the first time Balzac was trying his hand with serious... |
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| 8. |  | Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Customer Review: 09/09/2008 Merit-Worthy of Balzac: Beautiful cover, short stories filled with Balzac's lively imagination and minute observations of the details of everyday life and acute social and psychological insight coupled with Balzac's keen sense of irony. |
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| 9. | [no image] | Old Goriot (Everyman's library) from The Easton Press Customer Review: At the beginning of this wonderful commentary on love, society, family and wealth Balzac asks if the story he is about to tell "Will it be understood outside of Paris?" and he answers: "It is doubtful." This of course is just meant to be sarcastic, since like all classics, this work can be... |
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| 10. | [no image] | Pere Goriot from New American Library Customer Review: This is a classic novel: highly accessable with many layers to savor. Paris society in the early 1800's. An upwardly mobile provincial young adult. An unapologetic highly sophisticated criminal. And the title character, a downwardly mobile nouveau riche who has spawned spoiled rotten daughters.... |
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