Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster. He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel. I have known him to cut and slash the women's heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at ...
... front of the ship he shouted to the Trojans and Lycians saying, “Trojans, Lycians, and Dardanians good in close fight, bate not a jot, but rescue the son of Clytius lest the Achaeans strip him of his armour now that he has fallen.
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.
We see the cat through the eyes of thirteen authors, including such famous writers as Mark Twain, Booth Tarkington and Edgar Allan Poe. Carl Van Vechten assembled and edited this collection.
This book contains: - The Golden Fleece. - A Mystery of Heroism by Stephen Crane. - The Lost Legion by Rudyard Kipling. - How The Redoubt Was Taken by Prosper Mérimée. - The Shot by Aleksandr Pushkin.
Novels selected for this book: - Father Goriot - A Woman of Thirty This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
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Here are the cat tales your will enjoy in this work: The Cat by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Zut by Guy Wetmore Carryl A Psychical Invasion by Algernon Blackwood The Afflictions of an English cat by Honore de Balzac Gipsy by Booth ...
For the present book, the critic August Nemo has carefully selected seven short stories that exemplify the French tradition of the short story: - A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac - The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier - The ...
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac’.
Novels selected for this book: - Father Goriot - A Woman of Thirty This is one of many books in the seriesEssential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Thoughtfully compiled by the bestselling author Terry O' Brien, this series is a great way for readers to revisit old favourites and for introducing literary masterpieces to newer, younger readers.
Honoré de Balzac; born Honoré Balzac; was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
This eBook is Part 12 of the Delphi Classics edition of Honoré de Balzac in 116 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Study of a Woman from the bestselling edition of the author's Collected Works. Having established their name as ...
Honoré de Balzac. on the other hand, complained of his dissipation, the society he kept, and his short letters. While Balzac was in Vienna, he was working on Le Lys dans la Vallee. Although he said that Madame de Mortsauf was Madame de ...
Honoré de Balzac Delphi Classics. 93, The Elixir of Life 94, The Exiles 95, Louis Lambert 96, Seraphita ANALYTICAL STUDIES 97, Physiology of Marriage 98, Little Miseries of Conjugal Life Pathology of Social Life 99, Traité de La Vie ...
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac’.
Honoré de Balzac, Book Center. adjourned. The Chamber rose at half-past four o'clock. TRANSLATOR'S NOTE Note. — ”The Deputy of Arcis,” of which Balzac wrote and published the first part in 1847, was left unfinished at his death.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac’.