Honoré de Balzac

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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Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness , is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime.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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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Betty

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century...

Bruce Pirie 17 hours 8 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet , first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in...

Bruce Pirie 7 hours 17 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Magic Skin

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote «criticisms» of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition...

James E. Carson 11 hours 28 minutes

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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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Historical Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot

One of Balzac's most popular works, set around 1815 during the re-ascendancy of the Bourbon kings following the defeat of Napoleon. Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as...

James E. Carson 11 hours 44 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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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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War & Military Fiction

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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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General Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Modeste Mignon

Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary...

Don W. Jenkins and 4 more 9 hours 28 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...

1 hour 39 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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