Honoré de Balzac
20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850
7,437 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. (Source.)
Most-read books
La père Goriot
4.2 · 1800 · 99 want to read
Illusions perdues
5 · 1837 · 60 want to read
La Cousine Bette
4.3 · 1888 · 41 want to read
Eugénie Grandet
3.5 · 1868 · 32 want to read
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories
4 · 1984 · 38 want to read
Les contes drôlatiques
3.5 · 1855 · 21 want to read
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Honoré de Balzac
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
3.3 · 1959 · 8 want to read
The best horror stories
1990 · 15 want to read
Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
1959 · 15 want to read
Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Horror and Supernatural of the 19th Century
1983 · 15 want to read
La peau de chagrin
1800 · 10 want to read
Tales of Horror and Mystery
4 · 1993 · 11 want to read
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--World Literature
4 · 2001 · 11 want to read
Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
3.5 · 1838 · 11 want to read
Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu
3.7 · 1899 · 6 want to read
Vadideki Zambak
5 · 2009 · 9 want to read
Deux frères
1918 · 9 want to read
La comédie humaine
1837 · 6 want to read
Béatrix
1839 · 8 want to read
The Magic Skin
1889 · 6 want to read
Horror Classics
2004 · 7 want to read
The works of Honoré de Balzac..
1896 · 6 want to read
Physiologie du mariage
1830 · 6 want to read
Le Colonel Chabert
3 · 1892 · 3 want to read