La Comédie humaine


 * Author's Introduction to The Human Comedy, 1842

(See also Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine for a comprehensive index of characters.)

Scenes From Private Life

 * At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
 * The Ball at Sceaux
 * The Purse
 * The Vendetta
 * Madame Firmiani
 * A Second Home
 * Domestic Peace
 * The Imaginary Mistress
 * Study of a Woman
 * Another Study of a Woman
 * La Grand Breteche
 * Albert Savarus
 * Letters of Two Brides
 * A Daughter of Eve
 * A Woman of Thirty
 * The Deserted Woman
 * La Grenadiere
 * The Message
 * Gobseck
 * A Marriage Contract
 * A Start in Life
 * Modeste Mignon
 * Beatrix
 * Honorine
 * Colonel Chabert
 * The Atheist's Mass
 * The Commission in Lunacy
 * Pierre Grassou

Scenes From Provincial Life

 * Ursule Mirouet
 * Eugénie Grandet
 * The Celibates:
 * Pierrette
 * The Vicar of Tours
 * A Bachelor's Establishment
 * Parisians in the Country:
 * The Illustrious Gaudissart
 * The Muse of the Department
 * The Jealousies of a Country Town
 * The Old Maid
 * The Collection of Antiquities
 * The Lily of the Valley
 * (Les Illusions perdues)
 * The Two Poets
 * A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
 * Eve and David

Scenes From Parisian Life

 * Esther Happy
 * What Love Costs an Old Man
 * The End of Evil Ways
 * Vautrin's Last Avatar
 * A Prince of Bohemia
 * A Man of Business
 * Gaudissart II.
 * The Unconscious Comedians
 * The Thirteen
 * Ferragus
 * The Duchesse de Langeais
 * The Girl with the Golden Eyes
 * Father Goriot
 * The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
 * The Firm of Nucingen
 * The Secrets of a Princess
 * The Government Clerks
 * Sarrasine
 * Facino Cane
 * Poor Relations
 * Cousin Bette
 * Cousin Pons
 * The Middle Classes
 * The Middle Classes

Scenes From Political Life

 * The Gondreville Mystery or An Historical Mystery
 * An Episode Under the Terror
 * The Seamy Side of History or The Brotherhood of Consolation
 * Madame de la Chanterie
 * Initiated or The Initiate
 * Z. Marcas
 * The Member for Arcis or The Deputy for Arcis

Scenes From Military Life

 * The Chouans
 * A Passion in the Desert (see also (February 1891))

Scenes From Country Life

 * The Country Doctor
 * The Country Parson or The Village Rector
 * The Peasantry or Sons of the Soil

Philosophical Studies

 * The Magic Skin (La Peau de chagrin)
 * The Quest of the Absolute or The Alkahest
 * Christ in Flanders
 * Melmoth Reconciled
 * The Unknown Masterpiece or The Hidden Masterpiece (1834) translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
 * The Hated Son
 * Gambara
 * Massimilla Doni
 * The Maranas or Juana
 * Farewell
 * The Conscript or The Recruit
 * El Verdugo
 * A Seaside Tragedy or A Drama on the Seashore
 * The Red Inn
 * The Elixir of Life
 * Maitre Cornelius
 * Catherine de Medici
 * The Calvinist Martyr
 * The Ruggieri's Secret
 * The Two Dreams
 * Louis Lambert
 * Les Proscrits (1831)
 * The Exiles, translation by Clara Bell (1899)
 * The Exiles, translation by William Walton (1897)
 * The Exiles, translation by Katherine Wormeley (1893)
 * Seraphita

Analytical Studies

 * The Physiology of Marriage
 * Pathology of the Social Life