At head of title: The first complete translation into English."With a frontispiece in photogravure."v. 11. A harlot's progress. Esther happy. What love costs an old man. The end of evil ways. Vautrin's last avatar -- v. 13. The unconscious mummers. A prince of Bohemia. A man of business. Gaudissart II. The firm of Nucingen. Facino Cane. A princess's secrets. Bureaucracy -- v. 14. Cousin Betty -- v. 15. Cousin Pons. Old Goriot -- v. 16. Provincial Parisians -- v. 17. A most mysterious case. An episode under the terror. The seamy side of history. Z. Marcas -- v. 18. The member for Arcis -- v. 19. The Chouans. The country doctor -- v. 20. The peasantry. The country parson -- v. 21. The wild ass's skin. The quest of the absolute -- v. 22. The unknown masterpiece. Christ in Flanders. Melmoth reconciled. The Maranas. El verdugo. Farewell. The conscript. A seaside tragedy. The red house. The elixir of life -- v. 23. The child of malediction. A mad musician. The king's friend. Venetian nights.v. 24. About Catherine de{rcommaa} Medici -- v. 25. Seraphita. Louis Lambert. The exiles. v. 1. At the sign of the cat and racket. The Sceaux ball. The purse. The vendetta. Madame Firmiani. A daughter of Eve. Letters of two brides -- v. 2. A study of woman. Another study of woman. La grande Bretêche. Peace in the house. The imaginary mistress. Albert Savarus. A woman of thirty. A foresaken lady. La grenadière. The message. Gobseck -- v. 3. A marriage settlement. A start in life. A second home. Modeste Mignon -- v. 4. Beatrix. The atheist's mass. Honorine. Colonel Chabert. The commission in lunacy. Pierre Grassou -- v. 5. Ursule Mirouet. Eugénie Grandet -- v. 6. Pierrette. The abbé Birotteau. A bachelor's establishment -- v. 7. The jealousies of a country town. The old maid. The collection of antiquities -- v. 8. Parisians in the country. Gaudissart the great. The muse of the department. The lily of the valley -- v. 9. A distinguished provincial at Paris -- v. 10. Lost illusions. Two poets. Eve and David.

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A hero of the Napoleonic Wars, supposedly killed in battle, returns after a long convalescence to find his wife remarried and his pension gone. Colonel Chabert hires a lawyer to obtain justice, but the lawyer is playing a double game--unknown to the colonel he is working for the wife.

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