Eugénie Grandet. First published in the first edition of the Scènes de la Vie de Province.
L’Illustre Gaudissart. First published in the first edition of the Scènes de la Vie de Province.
1834.
Séraphita. The publication of this work was begun in the Revue de Paris, but appeared for the first time complete in Le Livre Mystique. Two volumes. Werdet. In 1846 it entered the fifth edition of the Études Philosophiques.
La Recherche de l’Absolu. This work originally appeared among the Scènes de la Vie Privée. It was reprinted by Charpentier under the title of Balthazar Claës. In 1845 it was inserted among the Études Philosophiques.
La Femme de Trente Ans. Six divisions. The first, Premières Fautes, appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes in September, 1831, under the title of Le Rendez-vous. The second, Souffrances Inconnues, appeared in the fourth volume of the third edition of the Scènes de la Vie Privée, 1834, as did also the third, À Trente Ans. The fourth, Le Doigt de Dieu, was published in two parts: the first, bearing the same title, in the Revue de Paris, March, 1831; the second, entitled La Vallée du Torrent, in the fourth volume of the third edition of the Scènes de la Vie Privée, 1834. The fifth division, Les Deux Rencontres, appeared in the Revue de Paris, January, 1831. The sixth and last division was first published under the title of L’Expiation in the fourth volume of the second edition of the Scènes de la Vie Privée, 1832. Reunited finally under the title of La Femme de Trente Ans, these different headings disappeared on their entrance into the fifth edition of the Scènes de la Vie Privée, 1842.
Le Père Goriot. Originally appeared in the Revue de Paris, in December, 1834, and January, 1835. A second edition was published the same year by Werdet and Spachmann. In 1843 it entered the third edition of the Scènes de la Vie Parisienne.
Lettres aux Écrivains Français. Revue de Paris, November, 1834.
Aventures d’une Idée Heureuse. Of this work, which was to form part of the Études Philosophiques, but a short fragment has appeared. This fragment was published in the Causeries du Monde in 1834.