Sons of the Soil) The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau de chagrin, 1831) The Quest of the Absolute (La Recherche de l'Absolu, 1834, a.k.a. Alkahest) Christ in Flanders...

Grandet (1833) Le Médecin de campagne (1833) Ferragus, chef des Dévorants (1833) La Duchesse de Langeais (1834) La Recherche de l'absolu (1834) Séraphîta (1834)...

(French: La Recherche de l'absolu) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scène de la vie privée;...

535-letter passage from The Alkahest, a translation of Honoré de Balzac's La Recherche de l'Absolu: Soon, little colloquies followed, a few words said in a...

La Peau de chagrin (French pronunciation: [la po də ʃaɡʁɛ̃], The Skin of Shagreen), known in English as The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin, is an...

La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his...

Centenarian], about a man seeking higher dimensions, the aptly named La Recherche de l'Absolu [The Search For The Absolute] (1834), whose hero is an alchemist...

Eugène de Rastignac (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn də ʁastiɲak]) is a fictional character from La Comédie humaine, a series of novels by Honoré de Balzac...

"mad scientist" character, Balthazar Claës, in Honoré de Balzac's novel La Recherche de l’absolu (The Quest of the Absolute). Her research suggested that...

Sarrasine was published, Balzac experienced great success with another work, La Peau de Chagrin (1831). As his career began to take off and his publications began...