The complete online text of Maitre Cornelius by Honoré de Balzac.

Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...

The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...

We had thought the summer controversy over the plagiarism by former BU Dean Joachim Maitre was a thing of the past. But with school reopening, Maitre and others at the university, apparently worried about student reaction to Maitre's continued employment on the faculty (he...

In his first public statement since this summer's scandal that ultimately cost him his position as dean of Boston University's College of Communication, H. Joachim Maitre said that he was the victim of a "smear" and of "ambush journalism" and that he had not...