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This section of The Human Comdedy, the multi-volume series of stories, tales, and essays that comprised most Honore de Balzac's life's work, focuses on love and marriage as they existed in early nineteenth-century Europe. An eclectic collection of essays, satirical observations, short tales, and character sketches, this unique excerpt is an interesting introduction to Balzac's writing.
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Publisher
The Floating PressYear
2014eBook ISBN
9781776539703Edition
0Table of contents
- Title
- Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- THE PHYSIOLOGY OF MARRIAGE
- Introduction
- FIRST PART - A GENERAL CONSIDERATION
- Meditation I - The Subject
- Meditation II - Marriage Statistics
- Meditation III - Of the Honest Woman
- Meditation IV - Of the Virtuous Woman
- Meditation V - Of the Predestined
- Meditation VI - Of Boarding Schools
- Meditation VII - Of the Honeymoon
- Meditation VIII - Of the First Symptoms
- Meditation IX - Epilogue
- SECOND PART - MEANS OF DEFENCE, INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR
- Meditation X - A Treatise on Marital Policy
- Meditation XI - Instruction in the Home
- Meditation XII - The Hygiene of Marriage
- Meditation XIII - Of Personal Measures
- Meditation XIV - Of Apartments
- Meditation XV - Of the Custom House
- Meditation XVI - The Charter of Marriage
- Meditation XVII - The Theory of the Bed
- Meditation XVIII - Of Marital Revolutions
- Meditation XIX - Of the Lover
- Meditation XX - Essay on Police
- Meditation XXI - The Art of Returning Home
- Meditation XXII - Of Catastrophes
- THIRD PART - RELATING TO CIVIL WAR
- Meditation XXIII - Of Manifestoes
- Meditation XXIV - Principles of Strategy
- Meditation XXV - Of Allies
- Meditation XXVI - Of Different Weapons
- Meditation XXVII - Of the Last Symptoms
- Meditation XXVIII - Of Compensations
- Meditation XXIX - Of Conjugal Peace
- Meditation XXX - Conclusion
- Postscript
- PETTY TROUBLES OF MARRIED LIFE
- PART FIRST
- Preface
- The Unkindest Cut of All
- Revelations
- Axioms
- The Attentions of a Wife
- Small Vexations
- The Ultimatum
- Women's Logic
- The Jesuitism of Women
- Memories and Regrets
- Observations
- The Matrimonial Gadfly
- Hard Labor
- Forced Smiles
- Nosography of the Villa
- Trouble Within Trouble
- A Household Revolution
- The Art of Being a Victim
- The French Campaign
- A Solo on the Hearse
- PART SECOND
- Preface
- Husbands During the Second Month
- Disappointed Ambition
- The Pangs of Innocence
- The Universal Amadis
- Without an Occupation
- Indiscretions
- Brutal Disclosures
- A Truce
- Useless Care
- Smoke Without Fire
- The Domestic Tyrant
- The Avowal
- Humiliations
- The Last Quarrel
- A Signal Failure
- The Chestnuts in the Fire
- Ultima Ratio
- Commentary
- Endnotes