Sons of the Soil) The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin, 1831) The Quest of the Absolute (La Recherche de l'Absolu, 1834, a.k.a. Alkahest) Christ in Flanders...
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Grandet (1833) Le Médecin de campagne (1833) Ferragus, chef des Dévorants (1833) La Duchesse de Langeais (1834) La Recherche de l'absolu (1834) Séraphîta (1834)...
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The Quest of the Absolute (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
(French: La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée;...
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La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...
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535-letter passage from The Alkahest, a translation of Honoré de Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu: Soon, little colloquies followed, a few words said in a...
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La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his...
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Centenarian], about a man seeking higher dimensions, the aptly named La Recherche de l'Absolu [The Search For The Absolute] (1834), whose hero is an alchemist...
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Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)...
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La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep, or The Two Brothers) is an 1842 novel by Honoré de Balzac, and is one of The Celibates in the series La Comédie humaine...
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Père Goriot (category Books of La Comédie humaine)
(French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included...
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