Product Description

Stanley Appelbaum (ed.). This convenient volume includes six of the great French writer’s most highly regarded short stories, including: "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," "The Forsaken Woman," "The Unknown Masterpiece," two more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages. Introduction. Footnotes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151820 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-02
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)
Original Language: French

About the Author
Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French journalist and writer, regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature. Among the masterpieces included in The Human Comedy are Le Pere Goriot, Les Illusions Perdues, Les Paysans, La Femme de Trente Ans, and Eugenie Grandet.

Customer Reviews

Book Description???
I have no quibbles with Balzac or anything the man wrote.

However, contrary to what the "Book Description" says, "The Forsaken Woman" (or "La Femme Abandonee") is not contained within the pages of this collection.

I would not even bother mentioning this except that I was specifically looking for a copy of that particular story. I've loved it since I read in it its original French back in high school. I just now found a copy of it on the Internet for free thanks to Project Gutenberg -- you may want to do the same thing if you're after a particular story or want a nice sampling of all that M. Balzac has to offer.

Note to AMAZON: It would be nice if whoever writes the book descriptions would actually pick up the item in question and, at the very least, take a look at the Table of Contents.

Honore de Balzac ~ Selected Short Stories [Penguin Classics]
09/09/2008
Merit-Worthy of Balzac:
Beautiful cover, short stories
filled with Balzac's lively imagination
and minute observations of the details
of everyday life and acute social and
psychological insight coupled with Balzac's
keen sense of irony.
Human Nature doesn't change
as social and economic conditions do.
Tales as mesmerizingly relevant today
as they were when written over a century ago.
Recommended Reading:
La Comedie Humaine:
Honore de Balzac's multi-volume
collection of novels depicting French
society 1815-1848:
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...

No editing error.
I have to put a five star rating to nutralize the other 1-star review. What's wrong with you or with your book, my copy contains exactly what it supposed to contain, including, "The forsaken woman".