...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl-... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Ursula by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormele... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Ursula by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Mademois... ...ard to his hotel on which was written “To-morrow; nine o’clock, Rue Saint- Honore, opposite the Assumption.” Minoret, who seemed to have renewed his y... ...ur years the two antagonists met beneath a porte- cochere in the Rue Saint-Honore. Frenchmen have too many distractions of mind to hate each other lon... ...omte Savinien de Portenduere: Monsieur,—I cannot be otherwise than greatly honored by the letter in which you offer me your hand; but, at my age, and ...

Excerpt: Ursula by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...rmeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wo... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To t... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To the Comt...

Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries....

...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State U... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Univ... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electron... ...electronic transmission, in any way. The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic ... ...rning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doc- tor, Horace Bianch... ...ly— ’landowner, the said Mme. d’Espard living in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, No. 104, and the said M. d’Espard in the Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-...

...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had sent away his carriage, and...

...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...your lives on our account. It is for us to die, for you to live, great and honored. For us the dagger in your hand; for you our pardoning love. Does t... ...ho strikes without warning and spares you a struggle? Why a happy life, an honored life, to the murderer who drop by drop pours gall into the soul and...

...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ...

...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... electronic transmission, in any way. The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ... scrape. The country gentleman, lodging at the Hotel de Mayence, Rue Saint-Honore, near the Place Vendome, one morning received a visit from a confide... ...d on black bread and cold water, and fettered in accordance with the time- honored traditions of the treatment lavished on captives. His cell, under t... ...s this a part for you to be playing? Could you not be happy and yet remain honored?—I have just heard that you are Monsieur Etienne Lousteau’s mis- tr...

Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...The Alkahest by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...c Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsy... ...lassics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...c transmission, in any way. The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Alkahest by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Madame J... ...t their wives in Bruges or Ghent, in Liege or in Holland; so that the time-honored domestic customs 9 Balzac might be perpetuated around their hearth...

Excerpt: Madame, may God grant that this, my book, may live longer than I, for then the gratitude which I owe to you, and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immortality....

...The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi...

Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Uni... ... an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electro... ... electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic... ...d. “Perhaps you hope that it may mean marriages for me!” For sole reply he honored me with a meaning look. For some days he has amused himself with te... ...francs. Your daughter weeps, but bows to the unquestioned authority of her honored parent. Some people are unkind enough to say that, behind her tears... ...le affair. But, whatever you do, don’t get entangled in the concerns of my honored father. The Comte de Maucombe is fishing for the title of Marquis f...

Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

...Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage NOTE: Eve and David is part three o... ...d by Charles IX. on the day of Saint- Bartholomew. He lived to be rich and honored in his old age, and lectured on the ‘Science of Earths,’ as he call... ...n she began to speak. But Lucien, to the joy and surprise of his old love, honored her with inattention; her words fell unheeded on his ears; he sat l...

Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart. He wanted to make the money quickly, and less for himself than for Eve?s sake and Lucien?s....

...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARD... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage TOWARDS THREE O’CLOCK in the aftern... ...e Marville, announced by Mme. Cibot, was an event in the house. Pons, thus honored for the first time in his life saw reparation ahead. “At last, my d...

Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....

...The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell This is dedicated to Auguste Bor...

Excerpt: Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of French surgeons, the illustrious Desplein, who flashed across science like a meteor. By the consensus even of his enemies, he took with him to the tomb an incommunicable method. Like all men of genius, he had no heirs; he carried everything in him, and carried it away with him. The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment....

...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...s epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? Look at the wretched little houses ...

Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their interests clashed; and sufficiently wily and politic to conceal the sacred ties that united them, sufficiently strong to maintain themselves above the law, bold enough to undertake all things, and fortunate enough to succeed, nearly always, in their undertakings; having run the greatest dangers, but keeping silence if defeated; inaccessible to fear; trembling neither before princes, nor executioners, not even before innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....

...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...age A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To Monsieur Savary, Member o... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage To Monsieur Savary, Member of Le Ac...

Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....