Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Honoré De Balzac - Selected Short Stories
Penguin, 1981
270 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Penguin Classics | Translated from the French & With An Introduction and Notes by Sylvia Raphael |

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. Compelling tales of acute social and psychological insight, they fully demonstrate the mastery of suspense and revelation that were the hallmarks of Balzac`s genius. In `The Atheist`s Mass,` we learn the true reason for a distinguished atheist surgeon`s attendance at religious services; `La Grande Breteche` describes the horrific truth behind the locked doors of a decaying country mansion, while `The Red Inn` relates a brutal tale of murder and betrayal. A fascinating counterpoint to the renowned novels, all the stories collected here stand by themselves as mesmerizing works by one of the finest writers of nineteenth-century France.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The fifty stories that Balzac wrote during his working life display all the qualities of his novels, and many of them feature the charaters that throng theComedie Humaine. Nevertheless, while they do offer an interesting counterpoint to the great novels, the stories as themselves.
For this volume Sylvia Raphael has chosen twelve stories, includingAn Incident in the Reign of Terror, The Atheist`s Massand The Red Inn. All of them reveal Balzac`s ability to excite curiosity, his intituitive grasp of what made other lives tick and his instinctive understanding of the contradicions in human behavior.

El Verdugo --
Domestic peace --
A study in feminine psychology --
An incident in the reign of terror --
The conscript --
The Red Inn --
The purse --
La Grande Bretèche --
A tragedy by the sea --
The atheist`s Mass --
Facino Cane --
Pierre Grassou -


Fiction, Classics, 0140443258, Onore de Balzak, Honore