Short Stories of Honore de Balzac Author:Honore de Balzac, Honore de Balzac 1887. Balzac is considered to be the greatest name in the post-Revolutionary literature of France. His writings display a profound knowledge of the human heart, with an extraordinary range of knowledge. Contents: Don Juan; Christ in Flanders; In the Time of the Terror; Madame de Dey's Last Reception; A Passion in the Desert; Lost by a Laugh; Gol... more »d; Doomed to Live; An Accursed House; The Atheist's Mass; and A Tragedy by the Sea. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less