Find all seven chapters and an addendum listing characters who appear elsewhere in "The Human Comedy" and the works in which they appear.

Guide to Balzac's "Comedy Humaine" features the text in English and French, commentary and character analysis.

Offers an overview of the French author's works, beliefs and family life, along with his views on politics and religion.

Provides a biography, bibliography, further reading list and museum information for the notable 19th-century French author.

Title of this work by Honore de Balzac says it all. Read the entire text.

Read Honore de Balzac's novel about this infamous and powerful woman.

Contains translated text of numerous Balzac stories including "Father Goriot" and "The Country Doctor."

Gives the complete text of Honore de Balzac's short novel.

Multimedia encyclopedia offers a biographical account of the French author, and provides a list of his most influential works.

Features full text of Balzac's stories "Bureaucracy," "The Country Doctor," "Juana" and "An Old Maid."

Find the complete text, in English, of Balzac's novel about a "Napoleon of the People."

Shares the complete text of one of Balzac's better-known novels.