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LA COMÉDIE HUMAINEOF HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Translated byKATHARINE PRESCOTT WORMELEY
Issued by arrangement with Messrs.Hardy, Pratt & Co.
Illustrated with 96 photogravure plates by Goupil from original pictures by Wagrez, Jeanniot, Georges Cain, Adrien Moreau, George Roux, Gustave Bourgain, and other noted French artists.
Cloth, extra, gilt top. 33 vols. 12mo. $1.50 per volume.
A conscientious and impartial comparison of Miss Wormeley's translations with those of her predecessors and present rivals must leave a conviction that for accuracy, sympathy, discretion, and editorial judgment she stands alone.—New York Tribune.
LIST OF VOLUMES
SCENES FROM PRIVATE LIFE. 6 vols.
Vol. I.Père Goriot; andThe Marriage Contract. Vol. II.Two Young Married Women; andAlbert Savarus. Vol. III.Fame and Sorrow, and Other Stories. Vol. IV.Modeste Mignon; The Peace of a Home, etc. Vol. V.A Start in Life; Vendetta, etc. Vol. VI.Beatrix; andA Commission in Lunacy.
SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE. 6 vols.
Vol. VII.Eugénie Grandet; andPierrette. Vol. VIII.The Two Brothers; andAn Old Maid. Vol. IX.Lily of the Valley; andGallery of Antiquities. Vol. X.Ursula; andThe Vicar of Tours. Vol. XI.Lost Illusions; andThe Illustrious Gaudissart. Vol. XII.A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris.
SCENES FROM PARISIAN LIFE. 7 vols.
Vol. XIII.Lucien de Rubempré; andThe Duchesse de Langeais. Vol. XIV.The Last Incarnation of Vautrin; Ferragus, etc. Vol. XV.Rise and Fall of César Birotteau; Nucingen and Co., Bankers; andAnother Study of Woman. Vol. XVI.Bureaucracy; Princesse de Cadignan, etc. Vol. XVII.The Lesser Bourgeoisie.Vol. XVIII.Cousin Bette.Vol. XIX.Cousin Pons.
SCENES FROM MILITARY LIFE. 1 vol.
Vol. XX.The Chouans; andA Passion in the Desert.
SCENES FROM POLITICAL LIFE. 3 vols.
Vol. XXI.An Historical Mystery; Episode under the Terror.Vol. XXII.The Brotherhood of Consolation; andZ. Marcas.Vol. XXIII.The Deputy of Arcis.
SCENES FROM COUNTRY LIFE. 3 vols.
Vol. XXIV.The Country Doctor.Vol. XXV.The Village Rector.Vol. XXVI.Sons of the Soil.
PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. 5 vols.
Vol. XXVII.Catherine de' Medici.Vol. XXVIII.Seraphita; andThe Alkahest. Vol. XXIX.The Magic Skin; andThe Hidden Masterpiece. Vol. XXX.Louis Lambert, etc. Vol. XXXI.Juana, etc.
MEMOIR AND PERSONAL OPINIONS. 2 vols.
Vol. XXXII.MemoirbyKatharine Prescott Wormeley. Vol. XXXIII.The Personal Opinions of Balzac.
LITTLE, BROWN, & CO., Publishers, Boston
Alphonse Daudet in English.
New Uniform Edition of the Novels, Romances, and Memoirs of Alphonse Daudet, the greatest French Writer since Victor Hugo.Newly Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Translator of Balzac's Novels; Jane Minot Sedgwick, Translator of George Sand; Charles de Kay, and others.
Printed from large clear type, with Frontispieces. Twenty volumes.12mo. Cloth, gilt top. $1.50 per volume.
Arrangement of the volumes.
"Of the brilliant group of men who have made contemporaneous French literature, of that coterie toward which the eyes of all the reading world have been turned with admiration and interest during the last half a century, Daudet was the greatest. He was the most universal, the most original, the most human."—From an Article in The Book Buyer, by L. Van Vorst.
Has, perhaps, transferred bodily into his writings more actual events, related in the newspapers, in the court-house, or in society, than any other writer of the present age. Of some of his novels one hardly dare say that they are works of fiction; their characters are men and women of our time; they do in the book almost exactly what they had done in real life.—Prof. Adolph Cohn, in The Bookman.
He is a novelist to his finger-tips. No one has such grace, such lightness and brilliancy of execution.—Henry James, in The Century.
The slightest pages from his pen will preserve the vibration of his soul so long as our tongue exists imperishable. He is the author of twenty masterpieces.—Émile Zola.
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