# The Red Inn

Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1433

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Red+Inn+Balzac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the world through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown to him. This friend, the head of a rather important house in Nuremburg, was a stout worthy German, a man of taste and erudition, above all a man of pipes, having a fine, broad, Nuremburgian face, with a square open forehead adorned by a few sparse locks of yellowish hair. He was the type of the sons of that pure and noble Germany, so fertile in honorable natures, whose peaceful manners and morals have never been lost, even aft...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-inn-1433/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-inn-1433/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-inn-1433/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-red-inn-1433/chapters/4/index.md)