Series

La Comédie Humaine series in reading order

The La Comédie Humaine series has 30 books.

Besançon has no use for strangers, at least until the lawyer Albert Savaron shows up. Before anyone realizes it, he’s won several cases—including a prominent one for the local diocese—and started a newspaper. Suddenly his name is on everyone’s lips, and much of the discussion revolves around why thi

All 30 books, in reading order

• 7. Albert Savarus — Honoré de Balzac
• 22. La Femme de Trente Ans — Honoré de Balzac · 268 pages
• 25. The Athiest's Mass — Honoré de Balzac
• 74. The Quest Of The Absolute — Honoré de Balzac · 100 pages
• 87. Seraphita — Honoré de Balzac · 140 pages
• A Passion in the Desert — Honoré de Balzac · 46 pages
• A Start in Life — Honoré de Balzac · 184 pages
• Beatrix — Honoré de Balzac · 535 pages
• Colonel Chabert — Ellen Marriage / Honoré de Balzac · 114 pages
• Cousin Bette — Sylvia Raphael / David Bellos / Honoré de Balzac · 774 pages
• Cousin Pons — Honoré de Balzac / Herbert J. Hunt · 336 pages
• Eugénie Grandet — Honoré de Balzac · 218 pages
• Gobseck — אונורה דה בלזאק / מירי ליטבק / ראובן מירן / אפרת ניר / Honoré de Balzac · 52 pages
• La Piel De Zapa — Honoré de Balzac · 214 pages
• Lost Illusions — Ellen Marriage / George Saintsbury / Honoré de Balzac · 656 pages
• Maître Cornélius — Katharine Prescott Wormeley / Honoré de Balzac · 68 pages
• Modeste Mignon — Katherine Prescott Wormeley / Honoré de Balzac · 176 pages
• Pierrette — Honoré de Balzac · 148 pages
• Sarrasine — Sophie Lewis / Honoré de Balzac · 65 pages
• The Ball At Sceaux — Honoré de Balzac · 56 pages
• The Chouans — Honoré de Balzac · 287 pages
• The Elixir Of Life — Honoré de Balzac · 48 pages
• The Girl with the Golden Eyes — Charlotte Mandell / Honoré de Balzac · 134 pages
• The Mysterious Mansion — Honoré de Balzac
• The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan — Honoré de Balzac / Katherine Prescott Wormeley · 68 pages
• The Unknown Masterpiece — Richard Howard / Arthur C. Danto / Honoré de Balzac · 170 pages
• A Daughter Of Eve — Honoré de Balzac · 145 pages
• A Harlot High and Low — Rayner Heppenstall / Honoré de Balzac · 554 pages
• A Murky Business — Honoré de Balzac / Herbert J. Hunt · 222 pages
• Another Study Of Woman — Honoré de Balzac · 48 pages

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