...Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Louis... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Louis Lambert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...idays at his father’s house; but instead of indulging, after the manner of schoolboys, in the sweets of the delightful far niente that tempts us at ev... ... ies to compose poems, which certainly can have shown no great promise, to judge by a line of too many feet which became famous among my companions—th... ...e which, being more immediately connected than the oth- ers with the nerve-centers of the brain, must, when shocked, cause invisible disturbance to th... ..., by acquiring some privilege of position or of self-advertisement, either legal or ingeniously contrived, purchase the right of taking day by day out... ... an income of four or five thousand francs to a man who deals honestly. An advocate, a notary, a merchant, any recog- nized professional, has earned a...

...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adore...