Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac  (; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His most famous work is La Comédie humaine. It is a collection of novels and short stories and is about French life after 1815. La Peau de chagrin (1831), Eugénie Grandet (1833) and Le Père Goriot (1835) are some of the most famous works from this collection. His books influenced many other people such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe.

Works

Tragic verse

Cromwell (1819)

Incomplete at time of death

Le Corsaire (opera)
Sténie
Falthurne
Corsino

Published pseudonymously

As "Lord R'Hoone", in collaboration

L'Héritière de Birague (1822)
Jean-Louis (1822)

As "Horace de Saint-Aubin"

Clotilde de Lusignan (1822)
Le Centenaire (1822)
Le Vicaire des Ardennes (1822)
La Dernière Fée (1823)
Annette et le Criminal (Argow le Pirate) (1824)
Wann-Chlore (1826)

Published anonymously

Du Droit d'aînesse (1824)
Histoire impartiale des Jésuites (1824)
Code des gens honnêtes (1826)

Selected titles from La Comédie humaine

Les Chouans (1829)
Sarrasine (1830)
La Peau de chagrin (1831)
Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (1831)
Le Colonel Chabert (1832)
Le Curé de Tours (1832)
La Fille aux yeux d'or (1833)
Eugénie Grandet (1833)
Le Contrat de mariage (1835)
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Le Lys dans la vallée (1835)
La Rabouilleuse (1842)
Illusions perdues (I, 1837; II, 1839; III, 1843)
La Cousine Bette (1846)
Le Cousin Pons (1847)
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1847)

Plays

L'École des ménages (1839)
Vautrin (1839)
Les Ressources de Quinola (1842)
Paméla Giraud (1842)
La Marâtre (1848)
Mercadet ou le faiseur (1848)

Tales

Contes drolatiques (1832–37)
La Grande Bretèche
An Episode of terror

Other websites
La Comedie Humaine - extra information about Balzac's works

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