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This is the story of two talented and ambitious young people whose ideals were shattered. Through the experiences of two young men, the author unfolds the broad social landscape of the French Restoration period. This novel almost concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deepest thoughts and feelings. Balzac claimed that "Disillusionment" is "the first book among my works."

"Petro Goriot" takes Paris in late 1819 and early 1820 as the social background. Through the story of the noodle merchant Goriot and his two daughters, as well as the "history of struggle" of the young college student Rastignac, it describes the bizarre and bizarre life of Paris society.

"Petro Goriot" is Balzac's masterpiece. The basic theme of "Human Comedy" is reflected here, and its artistic style best represents Balzac's characteristics. The intertwining of the careerist's struggle for fame and fortune and Goriot's desperate fatherly love makes the content of the novel even more bizarre and touching. Here, some major characters such as Rastignac, Viscountess de Beauseant, and Vautrin appeared on stage one after another, and the "Human Comedy" kicked off.

"Disillusionment" reveals the inside story of the literary and journalistic circles, and concentrates the author's most important life experiences and deep feelings about life. It is one of the most valuable works in "Human Comedy". The novel tells the story of two talented and ambitious young people who failed in their struggles and had their ideals shattered. The work reflects the social situation and mental state of an entire generation of young people after the French Revolution. The translator is Fu Lei, a famous Chinese translator and writer. He has hated evil all his life. Most of his translation works focus on exposing social ills and describing the struggles and struggles of characters. He proposed that "in terms of effect, translation should be like a painting, seeking not resemblance in form but resemblance in spirit". He believed that "the ideal translation should be as if it were the Chinese writing of the original author" and required that "the translation must be pure Chinese, free of stiffness and awkwardness". Fu Lei translated forty-three literary masterpieces in his lifetime, and various Chinese translations have been published in nearly 10 million copies. As far as the introduction of French literature is concerned, no one can match the number of translations, the distinctive features of the translations, and the great influence of the translations.

"Uncle Bangs" is Balzac's masterpiece and is known as the "highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs lived in poverty and lacked understanding of real life, but he was full of sincere love for art. He loved collecting antiques throughout his life and did not hesitate to spend money for it. However, in reality, there are conspiracies everywhere. From the concierge to his nephew-in-law, from antique dealers to doctors to litigation attorneys, countless villains appear on the stage, all plotting to carve up Uncle Bangs's rare collection. Only his friend Schmuke gave him comfort and hope. Poor Bangs suffered a lot of mental torture and eventually died of poverty and illness. Through Uncle Bangs, Balzac vividly presents to us the greatness and nobility of mankind, as well as the humbleness, ugliness and filth of mankind.

"The Peasant" is Balzac's masterpiece. The novel describes the conflict between the land ownership of aristocratic large estates and the small land ownership of the bourgeoisie, and the peasants are in the middle of these two social forces, just like "a bug is caught between a hammer and an anvil." The loan shark businessmen Gaubertin and Li Gu, who represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, defeated General Mongonay, who represented the interests of the aristocratic large landowners. However, the peasants who were attracted by the loan shark businessmen and rich peasants to this cruel struggle gained nothing. They just fell into a new kind of slavery and met a more vicious master. Balzac here describes the poverty situation in the countryside after the bourgeois revolution under the double exploitation of landlords and bourgeoisie, the farmers' strong hatred for the exploiters, and the farmers' dependence on loan sharks determined by their economic status at the time.

"The Marriage Contract" is selected from Balzac's "The Human Comedy". It describes the experience of a husband who lost his entire family due to careless marriage, and criticizes the marriage system with interests as its core: Marriage negotiation is like a transaction, and the seeds of discord are often sown from the beginning. Even from the first day of signing the marriage contract, a hidden family civil war begins; at the same time, it also criticizes the decay of the entire bourgeois society's views on marriage and family. The author uses keen observation and profound writing skills to depict the personalities and attitudes of various figures in French social circles. He has unique insights into marriage and family. The text is very philosophical and thought-provoking.

This book tells the story of the protagonist Goriot, a flour merchant who started his career during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to let them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them a dowry of 800,000 francs each when they got married. However, his two daughters lived a dissolute life and spent money like water. His love was easily defeated by the principle of money supremacy.

"Aunt Bei" is a novel written by French writer Balzac in his later years. The story takes place in Paris in 1838 and revolves around the fate of Baron Hulot de Hervé and his family. The Baron had served as a military auditor and director of munitions in the republican era. Now he was the head of one of the most important departments of the War Department, and was also a counselor of state. He was awarded the second class of the Legion of Honor. The novel describes how, driven by crazy passion that lost his reason and morality, he gradually ruined the reputation of his family and the honor of the army, embarked on the criminal path of speculation, fraud, and embezzled military funds, and finally lost his reputation. There are three volumes in this book, and this volume is the second. This book is a public edition, compiled by China Edition Group Digital Media Co., Ltd., And is not an imported edition.

Philippe, a retired army officer from Paris, does all sorts of evil things in order to gamble and spend all his time trying to squeeze more money out of his family. Hearing that his uncle Roge has a large inheritance in the countryside of Isoutun, he comes to the countryside to make careful plans; The stirring woman's incitement, coupled with the cowardice of the old man Roge, soon led to a life-and-death struggle between the two, which eventually evolved into a duel between Philippe and Max... However, has the winning party really become rich since then? The conspiracy in the money society never rests...

This is a selection of love letters written by the great French writer Balzac to his lover and later wife Madame Hanska.

Uncle Bangs was a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man. He likes the art of painting very much. In order to seize the inheritance of the lonely Hambans, some high-sounding people like Camusot, the chief judge of the royal family, tried every means to murder him and would not give up until they achieved their goal. For Pons, collecting famous paintings was a noble hobby; for his wealthy relatives, famous paintings were just a means to make a fortune.

"Petro Goriot" is set in the French society during the Restoration of the Bourbon Dynasty. It tells the story of two daughters raised by Mr. Goriot who made a fortune in business. After marriage, under the influence of the upper-class lifestyle, they squeezed their father's property, damaged their father's dignity, and tortured their father's emotions until they had nothing and died of physical and mental exhaustion. Intertwined with this main line is the experience of the provincial young man Rastignac breaking into Paris's upper class society and recognizing all the temptations and dangers involved. The main characters in Balzac's masterpiece "The Human Comedy" appear one after another in this novel, thus opening the prelude to the "Human Comedy".

The original title of "Dulan Funny Stories" is "Hundred Funny Stories", which is a collection of short stories in the style of "The Decameron". The author pretends that this is a manuscript preserved in the monastery of Touraine and compiled and published specifically for the entertainment of the Pantagruelists. In fact, these stories are all written by Balzac, but they only use the background and themes from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, imitating the language of the sixteenth century and Rabelais's bold, straightforward, lively and vivid writing style. The content mostly involves human affairs and personal relationships between men and women. However, under the cover of all kinds of frivolous jokes and vulgar words, there is no lack of penetrating satire and praise of beautiful human emotions. The translator, Shi Kangqiang, is a famous French translator and writer in China. In this book, Balzac uses Old French. At the request of Xia Wen, senior French editor of the Humanities Society, he translated this strange book in a style that imitates the Song and Yuan dialects. It is both faithful to the original text and consistent in form and tone. It is a rare translation masterpiece.

It mainly describes all kinds of living beings in the money society, and writes stories about various people's encounters with money in this era. Honorina is a person who intentionally stays away from the money society, and her escape is also a story of encounter. When Balzac wrote Honorine, Balzac was really more emotional than at any other time, maybe because Honorine is so rare. However, noble beauty is born with dirty beauty, and it is a pity that it is impossible to escape even if you have wings.