1. Balzac, by Frederick Lawton
2. Honore de Balzac, by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
3. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du chat-qui-pelote, 1830)
4. The Ball at Sceaux (Le bal de Sceaux, 1830)
5. The Purse (La bourse, 1832)
6. The Vendetta (La Vendetta, 1830)
7. Madame Firmiani [1832]
8. A Second Home (Une double famille, 1830)
9. Domestic Peace (La paix du ménage, 1830)
10. The Imaginary Mistress (La fausse maîtresse, 1842)
11. Study of a Woman (Étude de femme, 1835)
12. Another Study of a Woman (Autre étude de femme, 1842)
13. La Grand Breteche
14. Albert Savarus [1842]
15. Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, 1842)
16. A Daughter of Eve (Une fille d'Ève, 1835)
17. A Woman of Thirty (La femme de trente ans, 1832)
18. The Deserted Woman (La femme abandonnée, 1834)
19. La Grenadière [1833]
20. The Message [1832]
21. Gobseck [1830]
22. A Marriage Contract (Le contrat de mariage, 1835)
23. A Start in Life (Un début dans la vie, 1844)
24. Modeste Mignon [1844]
25. Béatrix [1839]
26. Honorine [1845]
27. Le Colonel Chabert [1844]
28. The Atheist's Mass (La messe de l'athée, 1837)
29. The Commission in Lunacy (L'interdiction, 1836)
30. Pierre Grassou [1839]
31. Ursula (Ursule Mirouët, 1842)
32. Eugénie Grandet [1834]
33. Pierrette [1840]
34. The Vicar of Tours (Le Curé de Tours, 1832)
35. The Two Brothers (La Rabouilleuse, 1842)
36. The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'Illustre Gaudissart, 1834)
37. The Muse of the Department (La Muse du département, 1843)
38. An Old Maid (La Vieille Fille, 1837)
39. The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des Antiques, 1839)
40. Introduction by George Saintsbury
41. Two Poets
42. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
43. Eve and David
44. Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot, 1835)
45. The Magic Skin / The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin, 1831)

About the Author

Nineteenth-century French novelist, one of the creators of Realism in literature. His Human Comedy (La Comédie humaine), spanning more than 90 novels and short stories, is a broad, often satirical panorama of French society, particularly the petite bourgeoisie, in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte.

Along with Gustave Flaubert (whose work he influenced), Balzac is generally regarded as a founding father of realism in European literature. Balzac's novels, most of which are farcical comedies, feature a large cast of well-defined characters, and descriptions in exquisite detail of the scene of action.