As to Balzac is it not open to us to argue with what is written there?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reading Workshop I « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

A related oscillation between homage and satire figures prominently in Balzac's supplement to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire] Reference

There are fine things in Balzac and passages in Mérimée which strike one like a keen blast of sea air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Life] Reference

This fact alone summarizes the exorbitant economy in Balzac which links together writing and excessive consumption. close window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on 'Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire'] Reference

But this disposition is generally defined as Balzac's great fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference

Monsieur Albert Savarus (/alias Balzac) is of medium height, neither fat nor slim; to conclude, he has prelate's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac]

Why did Marx recall Balzac's tale at the very moment when he was preparing to unveil his greatest work to public scrutiny?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The dance of commodities] Reference

There are laurels yet to be won in the field of serious painting -- triumphs such as Balzac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Inevitably, however, they all must be enlightened regarding "Balzac".    From Wordnik.com.  [PHILLY OPERA FANATIC] Reference

Monsieur Albert Savarus (alias Balzac) is of medium height, neither fat nor slim; to conclude, he has prelate’s hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balzac] Reference

Afterwards, however, they never shut up with the "Balzac", saying it over and over again, and at every subsequent encounter.    From Wordnik.com.  [PHILLY OPERA FANATIC] Reference

"Balzac," said Rachel, "or have you the Speech on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage Out] Reference

Balzac at last attained his goal when, on March 14, 1850, Madame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

During the five years (1820-1825) that Balzac remained at home in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Not as important as it was when Balzac and Dickens began to write.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling It As He Sees It] Reference

After a few years of life at Villeparisis, Balzac removed to Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Balzac wrote many plays, but they all met with failure for various reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Balzac had it right: "Behind every great fortune, there lies a great crime.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An economy kept afloat by mafia cash is not just the stuff of Le Carré thrillers] Reference

Love affairs, however, were far from being the only things that occupied Balzac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

I cannot refrain from mentioning here an anecdote which is very typical of Balzac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Balzac knew many women, and to understand him fully one should study his relations with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

That's because I keep it in the back of the bookshelf, behind the books by Balzac and Baudelaire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guide To The Gritty Side Of The French Language] Reference

Not being crowned from the first with the success he desired, Balzac needed encouragement in his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Balzac: if you thought the French novelist was a bit over the edge, look out for toys by the same name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only 340 More Days...] Reference

Having attained his majority and finished his legal studies, Balzac was requested by his father to enter the office of M.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

It seemed to me impossible that a foreigner could write anything worth reading about Balzac, or understand his psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Balzac, the former only having begun to frequent aristocratic drawing-rooms in 1840, and Balzac, in spite of his very short.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

And people like Dickens and Balzac used the form of the invented story to present to people the new worlds they were living in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telling It As He Sees It] Reference

At the end of the movie, we see Morrison's tomb at Pere-Lachaise cemetery, alongside the likes of Balzac, Proust and Oscar Wilde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back From The Other Side] Reference

But while he admired the book enough to suggest that Balzac would have loved it, the first line of the Lebenthal review caught me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Meier: Chick Lit? Women's Literature? Why Not Just ... Literature?] Reference

The garden walls, not long after completion, fell down as they had no foundations, and Balzac sadly exclaimed over their giving way!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

Franzen, like Balzac and Dickens, is a journalist at heart --- what he's created in Freedom is this generation's Bonfire of the Vanities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom Is a Rare Treat: Great Characters, Real Heartbreak & Credible Inspiration] Reference