Balzac, Honoré de

1799-1850

French writer, known primarily for his realist fiction, who also wrote a number of occult or supernaturalist tales.

Sites:
Balzac page
Good introductory biography. [Author's Calendar]
brief biographical note [Bibliographies]


Etexts:
"Christ in Flanders" (52K)  [Project Gutenberg]
"The Elixir of Life" [1830]
- at Project Gutenberg (66K)
- at The WorldWide School
"The Magic Skin" [1831]
a.k.a. "The Wild Ass's Skin," "Luck and Leather," and "The Fatal Skin"
- at Project Gutenberg(577K)
- at The WorldWide School
"Melmoth Reconciled" [1835]
- at Project Gutenberg (119K)
- at The WorldWide School
"Seraphita" [1835]
- at Project Gutenberg (315K)
- at The WorldWide School
"The Succubus"
This tale — redolent of sex, misogyny, and racial Otherness (the usual Gothic tropes) — is contained in Volume 2 of Balzac's Droll Stories, the complete text of which is avilable at Project Gutenberg (353K). The individual tales in this volume are not available as separate files, so you'll need to use your browser's search function to locate it.

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