La Maison Nucingen - The Firm of Nucingen [French English Bilingual Edition] - Paragraph-by-Paragraph Translation

La Maison Nucingen (The Firm of Nucingen)by Honoré de BalzacLa Maison Nucingen (The Firm of Nucingen) is a 1837 novel belonging to the Scenes from Parisian Life (Scènes de la vie Parisienne) subseries of La Comédie Humaine. The title originally planned by Balzac was la Haute Banque, a term used at the time for a handful of bankers who had acquired an absolute dominance in the financial markets of which Nucingen was one. Baron Nucingen appeared for the first time in the Father Goriot, and in Melmoth Réconcilié. Balzac had not finished writing Melmoth Réconcilié when he undertook La Maison Nucingen. In both novels, the author is inspired by the same the stock market speculation, speculation raging at a time of unprecedented industrialization, where risky investments to the point of madness can lead to triumph or ruin. While The Firm of Nucingen is realistic, Melmoth, with its association with the myth of Faust along with a theme of soul selling, has been classified under the Philosophical Studies subseries of La Comédie Humaine.About the AuthorHonoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. In 1832, he conceived a project of writing a collection of books that would describe all aspects of society. Originally called Etudes des Mœurs (Study of Mores), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, which became a slice of French life in the years after the fall of Napoleon. Honoré de Balzac's attention to detail and realist representation of society earns him the title of one of the founders of realism in European literature. His characters are complex, and not easy to pigeonhole (like real life). He influenced writers such Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino.About This EditionProject Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.Wolf Pup BooksA Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company