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Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (Tours, 1799-París, 1850), el novelista francés más relevante de la primera mitad del siglo XIX y uno de los grandes escritores de todos los tiempos, fue autor de una portentosa y vasta obra literaria, cuyo núcleo central, la Comedia humana, a la que pertenece Eugenia Grandet, no tiene parangón en ninguna otra época anterior o posterior.

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    HONORÉ DE BALZAC

    Vendetta

    Parts Edition

    By Delphi Classics, 2014

    Version 1

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    ‘Vendetta’

    Honoré de Balzac: Parts Edition (in 116 parts)

    First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

    © Delphi Classics, 2017.

    All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

    ISBN: 978 1 78877 505 2

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    Honoré de Balzac: Parts Edition

    This eBook is Part 8 of the Delphi Classics edition of Honoré de Balzac in 116 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Vendetta from the bestselling edition of the author’s Collected Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Honoré de Balzac, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

    Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Honoré de Balzac or the Collected Works of Honoré de Balzac in a single eBook.

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    HONORÉ DE BALZAC

    IN 116 VOLUMES

    Parts Edition Contents

    Scenes from Private Life

    1, At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

    2, The Ball at Sceaux

    3, Letters of Two Brides

    4, The Purse

    5, Modeste Mignon

    6, A Start in Life

    7, Albert Savarus

    8, Vendetta

    9, A Second Home

    10, Domestic Peace

    11, Madame Firmiani

    12, Study of a Woman

    13, The Imaginary Mistress

    14, A Daughter of Eve

    15, The Message

    16, The Grand Breteche

    17, La Grenadiere

    18, The Deserted Woman

    19, Honorine

    20, Beatrix

    21, Gobseck

    22, A Woman of Thirty

    23, Father Goriot

    24, Colonel Chabert

    25, The Atheist’s Mass

    26, The Commission in Lunacy

    27, The Marriage Contract

    28, Another Study of Woman

    Scenes from Provincial Life

    29, Ursule Mirouet

    30, Eugenie Grandet

    The Celibates

    31, Pierrette

    32, The Vicar of Tours

    33, The Two Brothers

    Parisians in the Country

    34, The Illustrious Gaudissart

    35, The Muse of the Department

    36, The Old Maid

    37, The Collection of Antiquities

    Lost Illusions

    38, Two Poets

    39, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris

    40, Eve and David

    The Thirteen

    41, Ferragus

    42, The Duchesse de Langeais

    43, Girl with the Golden Eyes

    44, Rise and Fall of César Birotteau

    45, The Firm of Nucingen

    Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life

    46, Esther Happy: How a Courtesan Can Love

    47, What Love Costs an Old Man

    48, The End of Evil Ways

    49, Vautrin’s Last Avatar

    50, Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan

    51, Facino Cane

    52, Sarrasine

    53, Pierre Grassou

    The Poor Relations

    54, Cousin Betty

    55, Cousin Pons

    56, A Man of Business

    57, A Prince of Bohemia

    58, Gaudissart II

    59, Bureaucracy

    60, Unconscious Comedians

    61, The Lesser Bourgeoisie

    The Seamy Side of History

    62, Madame de La Chanterie

    63, The Initiate

    Scenes from Political Life

    64, An Episode Under the Terror

    65, An Historical Mystery

    66, The Deputy of Arcis

    67, Monsieur de Sallenauve

    68, Z. Marcas

    Scenes from Military Life

    69, The Chouans

    70, A Passion in the Desert

    Scenes from Country Life

    71, Sons of the Soil

    72, The Country Doctor

    73, The Village Rector

    74, The Lily of the Valley

    PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES

    75, The Magic Skin

    76, Christ in Flanders

    77, Melmoth Reconciled

    78, The Unknown Masterpiece

    79, Gambara

    80, Massimilla Doni

    81, The Alkahest

    82, The Hated Son

    83, Farewell

    84, Juana

    85, The Recruit

    86, El Verdugo

    87, A Drama on the Seashore

    88, Maitre Cornelius

    89, The Red Inn

    Catherine de’ Medici

    90, The Calvinist Martyr

    91, The Secrets of the Ruggieri

    92, The Two Dreams

    93, The Elixir of Life

    94, The Exiles

    95, Louis Lambert

    96, Seraphita

    ANALYTICAL STUDIES

    97, Physiology of Marriage

    98, Little Miseries of Conjugal Life

    Pathology of Social Life

    99, Traité de La Vie Élégante

    100, Théorie de La Démarche

    101, Traité Des Excitants Modernes

    The Short Stories

    102, Droll Stories

    103, The Napoleon of the People

    The Plays

    104, Introduction to Balzac’s Dramas by J. Walker Mcspadden

    105, Vautrin

    106, The Resources of Quinola

    107, Pamela Giraud

    108, The Stepmother

    109, Mercadet

    The Criticism

    110, The Criticism

    The Biographies

    111, Honoré de Balzac by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet

    112, Honoré de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Mary F. Sandars

    113, Balzac and Madame Hanska by Elbert Hubbard

    114, Balzac by Frederick Lawton

    115, Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

    116, Glossary of Characters in ‘La Comédie Humaine’

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    Vendetta

    Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

    La Vendetta was first published in 1830 by Mame et Delaunay-Vallée. It is believed by many that Balzac was inspired to write La Vendetta by Prosper Merimée’s novel Mateo Falcone, which was serialised by the Revue de Paris in 1829 and also deals with the subject of Corsican vengeance and family honour.

    The novella concerns the tragic fate of Ginevra Piombo, the daughter of proud Corsican immigrants, who has the misfortune of falling in love with another Corsican, Luigi Porta. When it becomes known that Luigi is the sole survivor of a massacre in which the rest of his family were the victims of a vendetta with Ginevra’s family, Ginevra’s father Bartolomeo is determined to complete the act of vengeance by having him killed.

    Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He wrote the novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet’s famous opera, and he was a likely source of inspiration to Balzac.

    CONTENTS

    CHAPTER I. PROLOGUE

    CHAPTER II. THE STUDIO

    CHAPTER III. LABEDOYERE’S FRIEND

    CHAPTER IV. LOVE

    CHAPTER V. MARRIAGE

    CHAPTER VI. RETRIBUTION

    DEDICATION

    To Puttinati, Milanese Sculptor.

    CHAPTER I. PROLOGUE

    In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois.

    The man stood there with folded arms and a bowed head, which he sometimes raised to look alternately at the consular palace and at his wife, who was sitting near him on a stone. Though the woman seemed wholly occupied with the little girl of nine or ten years of age, whose long black hair she amused herself by handling, she lost not a single glance of those her companion cast on her. Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.

    The stranger had one of those broad, serious heads, covered with thick hair, which we see so frequently in the pictures of the Caracci. The jet black of the hair was streaked with white. Though noble and proud, his features had a hardness which spoiled them. In spite of his evident strength, and his straight, erect figure, he looked to be over sixty years of age. His dilapidated clothes were those of a foreign country.

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