Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Balzac

 

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1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacLa Recherche de L'AbsoluPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th...Mary Russell Mitford Henri BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...John Buchan Honore de Balzac[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945[Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' Arnold Bennett Honore de BalzacPrint: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness i...Leslie Stephen Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at...Arnold Wesker Honore de BalzacPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He...Ewan McColl Honore de BalzacThe Human ComedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s...James Hanley Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ...Arnold Bennett BalzacPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' George Eliot (pseud) Honore de BalzacThe Rise and Fall of Cesar BirotteauPrint: Book
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Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...Henry James Honore de BalzacUn Roman d'AmourPrint: Book
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Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ...Henry James Honore de BalzacLettres a l'EtrangerePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesHonore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer...Somerset Maugham Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ...Gerald Moore Honore de BalzacLa Peau de ChagrinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a...Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacLa Messe de l'AtheePrint: Book
1850-1899'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our...Robert Louis Stevenson Honore de BalzacContes DrolatiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one...Robert Browning Honore de BalzacBeatrix ou les Amours ForcesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839: 'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one...Euphrasia Fanny Haworth Honore de Balzac"Scenes"Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842: 'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844: 'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844: 'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa Vieille FillePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa TorpillePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among th...Mary Russell Mitford Honore de BalzacUne tenebreuse affairePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain powe...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe dernier ChouanPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844: 'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain powe...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacDavid Sechard, volume 1Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'Robert is a warm admirer of Balzac & has read...Robert Browning Honore de BalzacnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter...Mary Russell Mitford Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845: 'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa vieille fillePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845: 'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The tr...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacLa Femme superieurPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845: 'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel...Elizabeth Barrett Honore de BalzacEsther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquierPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845: 'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Honore de BalzacLes Paysans Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846: 'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have re...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Honore de BalzacLes Petits Menages d'une Femme verteusePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHonore de BalzacLe Cousin PonsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901: 'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus...Leonard Woolf Honore De BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902: 'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agr...Lytton Strachey Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...Edward Morgan Forster Honore de BalzacIllusions perduesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Honore de Balzac[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Honore de Balzac[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a...Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot a...Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded...Zoe Procter Honoré de Balzac[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacLost IllusionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were wri...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacA Harlot High and LowPrint: Book
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...Henry Marriage Wallis Honore de BalzacWild Ass's Skin, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...Mary Robson Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...Rosamund Wallis Honore de BalzacChrist in FlandersPrint: Book

 

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