The little white attic

I read L’Avare ( The Miser ) and Le Bourgeois Geltilhomme (here translated as The Self-Made Gentleman ) in the translation by George Grave...

Under my previous blog post about Dangerous Liaisons  (or  Les Liaisons dangereuses ) , Michael wrote:  “I feel odd commenting because I’ve...

Spoiler alert: I usually don’t put up a spoiler alert even though I spoil everything, but Eugénie Grandet has an interesting plot and I will...

1/ I like the house descriptions in Eugénie Grandet .  “When Charles saw the yellow, smoke-stained walls of the well of the staircase, where...

1/ This is my first Balzac. Tom at Wuthering Expectations calls it his favourite one . The translation is by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.  L...