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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) has 3 books in the BigBookHub catalogue: Father Goriot, At the Sign of the Cat and Racket and Cousin Pons. These titles date from between 1830 and 1847.
Books by Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot
Published in 1835, this novel is set in Paris under the restored Bourbon monarchy. A father who sacrifices for his daughters, a secretive criminal in hiding and a naive law student newly arrived from the provinces are all drawn into Parisian ambition, corruption and social climbing.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
A novel published in 1830 about a celebrated artist who falls for a cloth merchant's daughter and marries her. Augustine adores him but cannot grasp his artistic nature, and the marriage strains under the gap between bourgeois values and artistic temperament.
Cousin Pons
A novel published in 1847 about Sylvain Pons, a modest musician who loves collecting art and fine dining. After he fails to find a match for his wealthy cousins, he is cast out, and greedy figures then plot to seize his valuable collection.