Honoré de Balzac [1799-1850]

Works

(The order is according to Balzac's final plan [1845] of the Comédie Humaine.)

Studies of manners (Études de moeurs)

Scenes from private life (Scènes de la vie privée)

• At the Sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du chat-qui-pelote) / translated by Clara Bell [1830]
• The Ball at Sceaux (Le bal de Sceaux) [1830]
• The Purse (La bourse) [1832]
• The Vendetta (La Vendetta) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1830]
• Madame Firmiani / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1832]
• A Second Home (Une double famille) [1830]
• Domestic Peace (La paix du ménage) / translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell [1830]
• The Imaginary Mistress (La fausse maîtresse) [1842]
• Study of a Woman (Étude de femme) [1835]
• Another Study of a Woman (Autre étude de femme) translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell [1842]
• La Grand Breteche
• Albert Savarus [1842]
• Letters of Two Brides (Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées) [1842]
• A Daughter of Eve (Une fille d'Ève) [1835]
• A Woman of Thirty (La femme de trente ans) [1832]
• The Deserted Woman (La femme abandonnée) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1834]
• La Grenadière / translated by Ellen Marriage [1833]
• The Message / translated by Ellen Marriage [1832]
• Gobseck / translated by Ellen Marriage [1830]
• A Marriage Contract (Le contrat de mariage) [1835]
• A Start in Life (Un début dans la vie) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1844]
• Modeste Mignon [1844]
• Béatrix / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1839]
• Honorine [1845]
• Le Colonel Chabert / translated by Ellen Marriage [1844]
• The Atheist's Mass (La messe de l'athée) [1837]
• The Commission in Lunacy (L'interdiction) [1836]
• Pierre Grassou / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1839]

Scenes from provincial life (Scènes de la vie de province]

• Ursula (Ursule Mirouët) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1842]
• Eugénie Grandet / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1834]
• The Celibates (Les Célibataires) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  • Introduction by George Saintsbury
  • Pierrette [1840]
  • The Vicar of Tours (Le Curé de Tours) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1832]
  • The Two Brothers (La Rabouilleuse) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1842]
• Parisians in the Country (Les Parisiens en province):
  • The Illustrious Gaudissart (L'Illustre Gaudissart) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1834]
  • The Muse of the Department (La Muse du département) / translated by James Waring [1843]
• The Jealousies of a Country Town (Les Rivalités):
  • An Old Maid (La Vieille Fille) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1837]
  • The Collection of Antiquities (Le Cabinet des Antiques) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1839]
• Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) [1843):
  • Introduction by George Saintsbury
  • Two Poets / translated by Ellen Marriage
  • A Distinguished Provincial at Paris / translated by Ellen Marriage
  • Eve and David / translated by Ellen Marriage

Scenes from Parisian life (Scènes de la vie parisienne]

• Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life (Splendeurs et Misères des courtisanes) / translated by James Waring [1847]:
  1. Esther Happy; Or, How a Courtesan Can Love
  2. What Love Costs an Old Man
  3. The End of Evil Ways
  4. Vautrin’s Last Avatar
• A Prince of Bohemia (Un prince de la Bohème) [1840]
• A Man of Business (Un homme d'affaires) [1846]
• Gaudissart II [1844]
• The Unwitting Actors or The Unwitting Comedians (Les Comédiens sans le savoir) [1848]
• The Thirteen (Histoire des Treize) / translated by Ellen Marriage
  • Ferragus / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1834]
  • The Duchesse de Langeais (La Duchesse de Langeais) [1834]
  • The Girl with the Golden Eyes (La fille aux yeux d'or) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1835]
• Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1835]
• The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau) [1837)
• The Firm of Nucingen (La Maison Nucingen) [1838]
• The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan (Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan) [1840]
• The Government Clerks (Les Employés) [1838]
• Bureaucracy / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• Sarrasine / translated by Clara Bell [1831]
• Facino Cane [1836]
• Poor Relations (Les parents pauvres):
  • Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette) [1847]
  • Cousin Pons (Le Cousin Pons) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1847]
• The Lesser Bourgeoisie (Les Petits Bourgeois) [1855]

Scenes from political life (Scènes de la vie politique]

• An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• An Episode under the Terror (Un épisode sous la Terreur) [1830]
• The Brotherhood of Consolation (The Seamy Side of History: or The Brotherhood of Consolation: Murky Business) (Une ténébreuse affaire) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1841]
  • Madame de la Chanterie
  • Initiated or The Initiate
• Z. Marcas [1841]
• The Deputy of Arcis (Le député d'Arcis) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1847]

Scenes from military life (Scènes de la vie militaire]

• The Chouans (Les Chouans) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1829]
• A Passion in the Desert (Une passion dans le désert) [1830]

Scenes from country life (Scènes de la vie de campagne)

• The Country Doctor (Le Médecin de campagne) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1833]
• The Lily of the Valley (Le Lys dans la vallée) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1836]
• The Village Rector (The Country Parson) (Le Curé de Village) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1841]
• Sons of the Soil (The Peasantry) (Les Paysans) [1855]

Philosophical studies (Études philosophiques)

• The Magic Skin / The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1831]
• The Alkahest (The Quest of the Absolute) (La Recherche de l'Absolu) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1834]
• Christ in Flanders (Jésus-Christ en Flandre) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1831]
• Melmoth Reconciled (Melmoth réconcilié) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1835]
• The Hidden Masterpiece (Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1831]
• The Unknown Masterpiece [1845]
• The Hated Son (L'Enfant maudit) [1831]
• Gambara [1837]
• Massimilla Doni [1839]
• The Maranas (Les Marana) [1834]
• Farewell
• Farewell (Adieu) / translated by Ellen Marriage [1832]
• The Recruit (The Conscript) (Le Réquisitionnaire) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1831]
• El Verdugo / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1831]
• A Drama on the Seashore (A Seaside Tragedy) (Un drame au bord de la mer) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1834]
• The Red Inn (L'Auberge rouge) / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1832]
• The Elixir of Life (L'Élixir de longue vie) [1831]
• The Exiles (Les Proscrits) [1831]
• Maître Cornélius [1832]
• About Catherine de Medici / translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley [1842)
  • The Calvinist Martyr
  • The Ruggieri's Secret
  • The Two Dreams
• Louis Lambert / translated by Clara Bell and James Waring [1832]
• Séraphîta [1835]

Analytical studies (Études analytiques]

• Analytical Studies
• The Physiology of Marriage (Physiologie du Mariage) [1829]
• Pathology of the Social Life (Little Miseries of Conjugal Life) (Petites misères de la vie conjugale) [1846]