At this moment the panther turned her head toward the man and looked at him fixedly without moving.
Passion in the Desert
An Unabridged Edition from the Translation by Ernest Dowson This shot story was my introduction to Honore de Balzac.
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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright, most famous for his collection of novels and plays named ‘The Human Comedy’.
Originally published in the early 1920's as part of a series, The Works of Honor De Balzac is a superb collection, which includes: .
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Works of Honore de Balzac
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Short stories
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Thirty stories offer a lively and lusty portrait of 16th-century French life and manners. Balzac's fables recall the tradition of Boccaccio and Rabelais, abounding in episodes of good-humored licentiousness.
One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of his finest short stories - many of which feature characters from his epic series of novels the Comédie Humaine.
This edition's excellent translation was the first to make his Contes Drolatiques available to English-speaking readers.