Male : Novelist

Nationality : French Place of Birth : Tours

Date of Birth : 1799 Date of Death : 1850 Age : 51

[Between 1820 and 1840 he wrote a whole series of 'pot-boilers'
In 1829 he embarked upon writing the Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine)
His 'Studies of Manners' are consigned to the following categories]
SCENES OF PRIVATE LIFE
Le Pere Goriot (1834-5)
Daddy Goriot, or Unrequited Affection (1860 Ward & Lock)
Unrequited Affection, or Daddy Goriot (1878 Ward & Lock)
Pere Goriot (1886 Routledge)
Old Goriot (1896 Dent)
Old Goriot (1907 Dent Everyman)
Old Goriot (1948 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Rene Ben Sussan
Old Man Goriot (1949 John Winston, US) - Rafaello Busini
Old Goriot (1951 Penguin pb)

Beatrix (1839)
(1896 Dent)
(1957 Elek Books

Modeste Mignon (1844)
(1888 Routledge)
(1896 Dent)

Une Fille D'Eve (1830-9)
A Daughter of Eve & Letters of Two brides (1897 Dent)

Memoires de Jeux Jeunes Mariees (1839-42)
A Daughter Eve & Letters of Two Brides (1897 Dent)
The Two Young Brides (1902 Heinemann)

SCENES OF PROVINCIAL LIFE
Eugenie Grandet (1833)
(1859 Routledge)
(1886 Routledge)
(1896 Dent)
(1908 Dent Everyman)
(1953 Folio Society) - Dodie Masterman
1955 Penguin pb)
(1960 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Rene Ben Sussan

Ursule Mirquet (1840-1)
(1896 Dent)
(1915 Dent Everyman)
(1976 Penguin pb)

La Rabouilleause (1840-2)
The Two Brothers (1887 Routledge)
A Bachelor's Establishment (1896 Dent)
A Bachelor's Establishment (1951 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Black Sheep (1970 penguin pb)

Illusions Perdues (1836-43 in 3 parts)
Lost Illusions (1897 Dent) - 2 vols
(1913 Dent Everyman)
(1951 John Lehmann) - Philippe Julian
(1977 Penguin pb)

SCENES OF PARISIAN LIFE
Histoire de la Grandeur et de Decadence de Cesar Birotteau (1833-5)
History of the Grandeur & Downfall of Cesar Birotteau (1860 Saunders & Otley)
(1886 Routledge)
(1896 Dent)
(1912 Dent Everyman)
The Bankrupt (1959 Paul Elek)
Cesar Birotteau (1994 Penguin pb)

Histoire des Treze (1833-5 in 3 parts)
The Thirteen (1898 Dent)
The Duchess of Langeais (1886 Routledge) - 2nd part only
La Fille aux Yeux D'Or (1896 Leonard Smithers) - 3rd part only. Charles Conder
History of the Thirteen (1974 Penguin) - complete

Les Employes (1837-8)
Bureaucracy (1891 Routledge)
Bureaucracy & A Princess's Secrets (1898 Dent)

Splendeurs et Miseres des Courisanes (1838-47)
A Harlot's Progress (1897 Dent) - 2 vols
A Harlot High and Low (1970 Penguin pb)

L'Envers de L'Hisoire Contemporaine (1842-7)
The Seamy Side of History (1897 Dent)
A Murky Business (1972 Penguin pb)

Les Petits Bourgeois (1843-4)
The Middle Classes (1899 Dent)

Cousin Bette (1846)
(1897 Dent)
(1948 Hamish Hamilton)
1965 Penguin pb)
[Filmed in 1998]

Cousins Pons (1846-7)
(1880 Simpkin Marshall)
(1886 Routledge)
(1897 Dent)
(1910 Dent Everyman)
(1968 Penguin pb)

SCENES OF POLITICAL LIFE
Une Tenebreuse Affaire (1838-40)
A Gondreville Mystery & An Episode of the Terror (1898 Dent)
The Gondreville Mystery (1958 Elek)

Le Depute D'Arcis (1939-47)
The Member for Arcis (1898 Dent)

SCENES OF MILITARY LIFE
Les Chouans ou La Bretagne En 1799 (1834 Definitive Edition)
The Chouans (1890 Nimmo) - Julien le Blant
(1896 Dent)
(1911 Dent Everyman)
(1972 Penguin pb)

SCENES OF COUNTRY LIFE
Le Medecin de Campagne (1832-3)
The Country Doctor (1887 Routledge)
(1896 Dent)
(1911 Dent Everyman)

Le Cure de Village (1838-9)
The Country Parson (1896 Dent)
(1914 Dent Everyman)

Le Lys Dans La Vallee (1834-5)
The Lily of the Valley (1897 Dent)
(1957 Elek)

Les Paysans (1838-45)
Sons of the Soil (1891 Routledge)
The Peasantry (1896 Dent)

PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Le Peau de Chagrin (1831)
The Magic Skin (1888 Routledge)
The Wild Ass's Skin (1896 Dent (1906 Dent Everyman)
The Fatal Skin (1949 Hamish Hamilton)
The Wild Ass's Skin (1977 Penguin pb)

Le Recherche de L'Absolu (1834)
Belthazar, or Science & Love (1859 Routledge)
The Alkahest, or The House of Claes (1887 Routledge)
The Quest of the Absolute (1896 Dent) (1908 Dent Everyman)
The Tragedy of Genius (1912 Greening)

Sur Catherine de Medici (1830-41)
About Catherine de Medici (1897 Dent)
(1910 Dent Everyman)

COLLECTIONS
Scenes from Parisian Life, from the French of Balzac : 1st Series (1834 Fraser)
The Cat and Battledore & Other Tales (1879 Sampson Low) - 3 vols
Shorter Stories from Balzac (1890 Walter Scott)
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (1896 Dent) (1908 Dent Everyman)
A Woman of Thirty; A Forsaken Lady; La Grenadiere; The Message; Gobseck (1896 Dent)
La Grande Bretache ; A Study of a Woman; Another Study of a Woman; Peace in the House;
The Imaginery Mistress; Albert Savarus (1896 Dent)
The Atheist's Mass; Honorine; Colonel Chabert; The Commission in Lunacy;
Pierre Grassou (1896 Dent) (1906 Dent Everyman)
[Filmed in 1994 as "Le Colonel Chabert"]
Pierette & the Abbe Birotteau (1896 Dent)
"The Girl with the Golden Eyes" : La Fille aux Yeux d'Or
(1896 Leonard Smithers) - Charles Conder
Seraphita; Louis Lambert; The Exiles (1896 Dent)
The Unconscious Mummers; A prince of Bohemia; A Man of Business; Gaudissart II;
The Firm of Nucingen; Facino Cane (1897 Dent)
The Unknown Masterpiece; Christ in Flanders; Melmoth reconciled; The Maranas; El Verdugo;
Farewell; The Conscript; A Seaside Tragedy; The Red House; The Elixir of Life (1896 Dent)
Parisians in the Country (1898 Dent)
The Jealousies of a Country Town (1898 Dent)
A Marriage Settlement; A Start in Life; A Second in Life (1898 Dent)
A Father's Curse; Maitre Cornelius; Gambara; Massamilli Doni (1898 Dent)
The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1928 Chicago) - Donald Denton
Selected Short Stories (1977 Penguin)

ANALYTICAL STUDIES
The Physiology of Marriage (1904 PP)
(1925 Casanova Society)
Conjugal Life : pinpricks of Married Life & Physiology of Marriage (1957 Neville Spearman)

COLLECTED EDITIONS
The Human Comedy (1895-99 Dent) - 40 vols
The Human Comedy (1896-1908 Caxton) - 53 vols
The Human Comedy (1895 George Barrie, Phila) - 100. 53 vols
The Human Comedy (1897 Leonard Smithers) - 11 vols. 250 sets. Bindings by Beardsley
The Works (1897-9 Gebbie Publishing Co, Phila) - 24 vols. 1000

LES CENTS CONTES DROLATIQUES
Les Contes Drolatiques (1860 J C Hotten) - French text. Gustave Dore
Balzac's Contes Drolatiques : Droll Stories collected from the Abbeys of Touraine
(1874 Chatto & Windus) - Gustave Dore
Les Contes Drolatiques (1900 PP) - Albert Robida
Ten Droll Stories (1926 JL, Bodley Head) - 3000. Jean de Bosschere
Droll Stories (1932 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 3 vols. 1500 signed by W A Dwiggins
(1930s Blue Ribbon Books) - Steel Savage
(1939 The Heritage Club, NY) - Boris Artzybasheff
The Devil's Heir : Nine Stories from Les Contes Drolatiques (1945 John Westhouse) - R A Brandt
Droll Stories (1961 Folio Society) - Mervyn Peake

LETTERS
The Correspondence .. Memoir by His Sister (1878 Bentley) - 2 vols
Honore de Balzac's Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewulka, afterwards
Madame de Balzac 1833-46 (1900 Hardy, Pratt & Co, US)
Love Letters of Honore de Balzac 1833-42 (1901 Downey) - 2 vols
Letters to His Family 1809-1850 (1934 Princeton UP)
The Unpublished Correspondence of Honore de Balzac & Madame Zulma Carraud 1829-1850
(1937 John Lane)

READING
Sir Frederick Wedmore : Life of Honore de Balzac (1890 Walter Scott)
William Hobart Royce : A Balzac Bibliography (1930 Chicago UP)
William Hobart Royce : Balzac as He Should be Read (1946 Giraldi, US)
Herbert J Hunt : Honore de Balzac (1957 Athlone Press)
Albert J George : Books by Balzac - A Checklist (1960 Syracuse UP)
Andre Maurois : Prometheus (1965 Bodley Head)
F Marceau : Balzac and His World (1967 W H Allen)
V S Pritchett : Balzac (1973 Chatto & Windus)
Christopher Prendergast : Balzac - Fiction and Melodrama (1977 Arnold £9.95)
Graham Robb : Balzac (1994 Picador £20)