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- Robb, Graham, Balzac.
- Kane, Martin. 1993 Pere Goriot: Anatomy of a Troubled World. Twayne.
- Sylvia Raphael (tr) Honore Balzac: Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics, 1977)
- Edmund Fuller, Balzac: Five Stories, (Dell Publishing, 1960)
Reader's Guide
Choose a story that matches your tastes and available free time. For each story, the content, length, and when the fictional events occurred is given.
Each entry contains: common names for English translations, years when the action takes place, a plot summary and other interesting information, the length of the story (very short, short, medium, long, very long) the French name of the text, and finally the name of the file at Project Gutenberg where the story can be found.
The Eighteenth CenturySarrasine (1758,1830)
An Episode under the Terror (1793)
The Recruit (1783)
The Red Inn (1799)
Les Maranas (Juana) (1789)
A Passion in the Desert (1799)
The Chouans (1799)
The 19th-Century:
The Consulate and Empire of Napoleon (1799-1814)
The Vendetta (1800,1815)
A Double Family (A Double Life) (1806-1833)
A Dark Affair (The Gondreville Mystery,A Murky Business) (1803-1806,1834)
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (Before 1815)
The Executioner (El Verdugo) (1808)
Domestic Peace (1809)
Louis Lambert (1812-1824)
The Alkahest (Search for the Absolute) (1812-1824)
A Woman of Thirty (1813-1844)
The Restoration, Louis XVIII (1814-24)
The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1815)
Two Brothers (La Rabouilleuse,A Bachelor's Establishment) (1792,1839)
Father Goriot (1819-1820)
Eugenie Grandet (1819-1833)
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1819-23)
Adieu (1812,1819)
Ferragus (History of the Thirteen,1819)
The Message (1819)
Colonel Chabert (1818,1840)
Facino Cane (1822)
Two Poets (Lost Illusions I, 1819-23)
A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris (Lost Illusions, 1819-23)
The Trial of the Inventor (Eve and David) (Lost Illusions, 1819-23)
La Grenadiere (1819-30)
Massimilla Doni (1820)
The Lily of the Valley (1809,1823)
Melmoth Reconciled (Before 1822)
The Atheist's Mass (1820,1831)
The Old Maid (1816-20)
The Cabinet of Antiquities (1822-24)
A Drama on the Seashore (1824)
The Duchesse de Langeais (1818-29)
Madame Firmiani (1825)
The Peasants (Sons of the Soil) (1823-26)
The Purse (1819)
The Ball at Sceaux (The Rural Ball) (1819)
The Restoration, Charles X, 1824-30
Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans
The Marriage Contract (1821-27)
Gobseck (1806-30)
The Deserted Woman (1822)
Study of a Woman (1823)
The Interdiction (A Commission in Lunacy) (1828)
A Start in Life (1822-38)
Modeste Mignon (1829)
The Vicar of Tours (The Bachelors) (1826)
The Country Doctor (1829-30)
Another Study of Woman (Before 1815)
La Grande Breteche (1830)
Letters of Two Brides (1825-33)
Pierrette (The Bachelors I) (1827-28)
Pierre Grassou (1832)
The Government Clerks (Bureaucracy) (1824-30)
The Brotherhood of Consolation
The July Monarchy (Orleans Dynasty) Louis Phillipe (1830-48)
The Wild Ass's Skin (The Magic Skin) (1830-31)
The Illustrious Gaudissart (1830-31)
A Man of Business (1833,40)
A Daughter of Eve (1833-34)
Ursule Mirouet (Ursula) (1829-37)
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan (1830-33)
Honorine (1824-36)
Albert Savarus (1834-35)
Gambara (1831-37)
The House of Nucingen (Nucingen & Co., Bankers) (1826,37)
The Seamy Side of History (The Brotherhood of Consolation,L'Initie) (1809,36)
The False Mistress (Paz) (1835-42)
A Prince of Bohemia (1830-37)
Beatrix (1836-40)
Z. Marcas (1836)
The Muse of the Department (1836-43)
A Country Vicar (The Village Rector) (1827-43)
Cousin Betty (1838-44)
Cousin Pons (1844-46)
The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) (1830-40)
Gaudissart II (1844)
The Deputy of Arcis (1839)
The Unconscious Comedians (Comedians Without Knowing It) (1846)
Physiology of Marriage
Petty Annoyances of Married life (1830-45)
Seraphita (1799-1800)