Honoré de Balzac
Subtitle: now for the first time completely translated into English
Edition: Memorial edition.
Publisher: Barrie
Published: 1895
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
Other titles: Human comedy
Work titles: Comédie humaine
Notes: "Édition définitive."

Edition of 100 copies.

Translators vary.

Etchings in two states.

Translation of: Comédie humaine.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-11. Parisian life: v. 1-2. The splendors and miseries of courtesans: The way that girls love.  How much love costs old men.  The end of bad roads.  The last incarnation of Vautrin; title: v. 3-4. The poor relations, first episode: Cousin Bette. Poerre Grassou. The girl with the golden eyes; title: v. 5. Poor relations, second episode: Cousin Pons; title: v. 6. History of the thirteen: Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants.  La Duchesse de Langeais; title: v. 7. History of the grandeur and downfall of César Birotteau; title: v. 8. The civil service.  Gaudissarrt II.  A prince of Bohemia; title: v. 9. The house of Nucingen.  The secrets of La Princesse de Cadignan.  Sarrasine.  Facino Cane.  A man of business.  The involuntary comedians.; title: v. 12-22. Private life: v. 12. The house of the Cat and Racket.  The dance at Sceaux.  The purse.  The vendetta; title: v. 13. Memoirs of two young wives; title: v. 14. Modeste Mignon; title: v. 15. A start in life.  Madame Firmiani.  The message.  The atheist's mass; title: v. 16. Albert Savarus.  A daughter of Eve; title: v. 17. The marriage contract.  La grenadiere.  Gobseck; title: v. 18. A woman of thirty.  The deserted mistress; title: v. 19. Old Goriot; title: v. 20. Honorine.  Colonel Chabert.  The interdiction; title: v. 21. Beatrix; title: v. 22. A double family.  The peace of the household.  A study of woman.  Another study of woman.  The pretended mistress.; title: v. 23-32. Provincial life: v. 23. Ursule Mirouët; title: v. 24-25. The celibates: Pierrette.  The Curé de Tours.  La Rabouilleuse; title: v. 26. Eugénie Grandet; title: v. 27. The lily of the valley; title: v. 28. The illustrious Gaudissart.  The muse of the department; title: v. 29. The old maid.  The cabinet of antiquities; title: v. 30-32. Lost illusions: The two poets.  A provincial great man in Paris.  The trials of an inventor.; title: v. 33-37. Military and political life: v. 33. The Chouans; title: v. 34. A passion in the desert.  An episode under the reign of terror.  A dark affair; title: v. 35. Z. Marcas.  The other side of contemporaneous history, first episode: Madame de la Chanterie; second episode: The novice; title: v. 36-37. The deputy from Arcis.; title: v. 38-40. Country life: v. 38. The country Doctor; title: v. 39. The village Curé; title: v. 40. The peasants.; title: v. 41-49. Philosophic and analytic studies: v. 41. The magic skin; title: v. 42. Jesus Christ in Flanders.  Melmoth converted.  The elixir of long life.  Seraphita; title: v. 44. Gambara.  Massimilla Doni.  The accursed child; title: v. 45. The quest of the absolute; title: v. 46. Adieu.  The conscript.  The executioner.  The exiles.  Louis Lambert; title: v. 47. Catherine de' Medici; title: v. 48-49. Physiology of marriage.  Petty worries of conjugal life.; title: v. 50-51. The repertory of La comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac.; title: v. 52-53. Les contes drolatiques.