Honoré de Balzac

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: Two Poets

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new...

Bruce Pirie 6 hours 22 minutes

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Romance

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Honoré de Balzac - Girl with the Golden Eyes

Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante — but...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Louis Lambert

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostly in a school at...

Don W. Jenkins 4 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Firm of Nucingen

Part of the Comedie Humane and a «supplementary» tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of one of Father Goriot's daughters. «James Waring» is a pseudonym of Ellen Marriage...

James E. Carson 3 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Honoré de Balzac - Gobseck

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in...

James E. Carson 2 hours 36 minutes

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War & Military Fiction

524

Honoré de Balzac - Farewell

In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The...

Martin Geeson 2 hours 28 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Colonel Chabert

Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays...

Nicole Lee 2 hours 2 minutes

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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Published 1900 onward

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Honoré de Balzac - Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 46 minutes

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Romance

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Honoré de Balzac - Sarrasine

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As one of the “fathers of realism” Balzac...

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Another Study of Woman

A series of tales — told by men, of course — about women. Though the book first appeared in 1842, Balzac later added to it as an addenfum a tale of 1831, La Grande Bretèche. That will be read later, keeping it...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Red Inn

Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. — Summary by pmstrahm

pmstrahm 1 hour 35 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Grande Bretèche

La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table. This one, given to the guests at about two in the morning, is tale of marital...

Nicholas Clifford 52 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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