Romantic era, 1800 to 1847

5 books

At the Sign of the Cat and RacketHonoré de Balzac · 1830A novel by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830, following a young man who loiters outside an old Paris shop called the Cat and Racket, watching the third-floor window of a girl he adores.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

CarmenProsper Mérimée · 1845A French novella from 1845, told as a traveler's account of a journey through Andalusia, where the narrator falls in with a mysterious armed stranger who may be a smuggler or brigand before introducing the tale of Carmen.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac · 1835A 19th-century French novel by Honoré de Balzac, set in a Paris boarding house in 1819, where the lives of its poor lodgers, including the elderly Father Goriot, unfold in a story of poverty, sacrifice, and social ambition.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Devil's PoolGeorge Sand · 1846George Sand's 1846 pastoral novel, translated from the French, tells the story of Germain, a widowed peasant laborer seeking a new wife, in a simple tale of rural life that the author frames as a gentle alternative to literature of misery and terror.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية

The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830Stendhal · 1830A 1916 English translation of Stendhal's 1830 French novel The Red and the Black, subtitled A Chronicle of 1830. It follows Julien, an ambitious young man whose rise and passions reflect the society of Restoration France.EN ES 中文 हिन्दी العربية