Balzac

BALZAC

BY

FREDERICK LAWTON

DEDICATED,

In remembrance of many pleasant and instructive hours spent in his society, to the sculptor


 * AUGUSTE RODIN,

whose statue of Balzac, with its fine, synthetic portraiture, first tempted the author to write this book.

PASSY, PARIS, 1910.

Contents

 * Preface
 * Chapter I: Introduction
 * Chapter II: Boyhood
 * Chapter III: Experiments in Literature and Business
 * Chapter IV: First Successes and Fame
 * Chapter V: Letters to "The Stranger," 1831, 1832
 * Chapter VI: Letters to "The Stranger," 1833, 1834
 * Chapter VII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1835, 1836
 * Chapter VIII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1837, 1838
 * Chapter IX: Letters to "The Stranger," 1839, 1840
 * Chapter X: Letters to "The Stranger," 1841, 1842
 * Chapter XI: Letters to "The Stranger," 1843, 1844
 * Chapter XII: Letters to "The Stranger," 1845, 1846
 * Chapter XIII: Last Years, Marriage and Death
 * Chapter XIV: The Comedie Humaine
 * Chapter XV: Value of the Work
 * Chapter XVI: The Influence
 * Chapter XVII: Conclusion, the Man and his Portraits