Maitre Cornelius

Carolyn Fay
2007 Mar 25

Maître Cornelius by Honoré de Balzac

Cornelius Hoogworst is a silversmith and notorious miser whose treasure is periodically robbed. Only when a young gentleman apprentices himself to the smith (with the aim of gaining access to the lovely women next door) is the secret of the robberies revealed. Let it also be noted that Cornelius is a frequent sleepwalker…

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(English) Balzac, Honoré de. Maitre Cornelius. Trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Mondial, 2005.

(French) Balzac, Honoré de. Maître Cornelius [Master Cornelius]. La Comédie humaine. [The Human Comedy]. Ed. Pierre-Georges Castex. Vol. 11. Paris: Gallimard, 1980. 12 vols. 1976-81.