The works of Honoré de Balzac
By: with introductions by George Saintsbury
Contributors: Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933
Edition: Touraine ed.
Publisher: Avil Pub. Co.
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Translations into English; Literary collections
Notes: "This Touraine edition de luxe ... is limited to 1250 sets."
Table of contents: title: V.1, The magic skin; Christ in Flanders; Melmoth reconciled.- v.2, The quest of the absolute; The unknown masterpiece; The Maranas; El Verdugo; Farewell About Catherine de Medici; Gambara.- v.4, Seraphita; Louis Lambert; The exiles; Maitre Cornelius; The elixir of life.- v.5, Eugene Grandet; Another study of woman; Domestic peace; The imaginery mistress.- v.6, Ursule Mirouet; Massimilla Doni; A seaside tragedy; The red inn.- v.7, At the sign of the cat and racket; Ball at Sceaux; The purse; Madame Firmiani; Pierrette; The Vicar of Tours.- v.8, A batchelor's establishment; Honorine.- v.9, A daughter of Eve; Letters of two brides.- v.10, A woman of thirty; The deserted woman; La Grenadiere; The message; Gobseck; Pierre Grassou.- v.11, A marriage settlement; A start in life; A second home.- v.12, Modeste Mignon; The hated son; The atheist's mass.- v.13, Beatrix.- v.14, The jealousies of a country town; The commission in lunacy.- v.15, Lost illusions.- v.16, A distinguished provincial at Paris.- v.17, The lily of the valley; The firm of Nucingen.- v.18, The country doctor; The vendetta; Colonel Chabert.- v.19, The country parson; Albert Savarus.- v.20, The peasantry.- v.21, Cousin Betty.- v.22, Cousin Pons.- v.23, Scenes from a courtesan's life, pt.2; The government clerks.- v.25, The thirteen.- v.26, Father Goriot; The unconscious humorists Parisians in the country.- v.27, The rise and fall of Desar Birotteau; The secrets of a princess.- v.28, The middle classes.- v.29, The Chouans; A passion in the desert.- v.30, The Gondreville mystery; The muse of the department.- v.31, The member for Arcis.- v.32, The seamy side of history; A prince of Bohemia; A man of business; Gaudissart II; Sarrasine; Facino Cane; Z. Marcas; An episode under the Terror.- v.33, The physiology of marriage; Petty troubles of married life.- v.34, Vautrin; Resources of Quinola; Pamela Giraud.- v.35, The stepmother; Mercadet.- v.36, Repertory of the Comedie Humaine by Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Christophe.