Bruce Pirie
47 books
Literary Fiction
476
Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine....
13 hours 45 minutes
Short Stories
463
Francis J. Reynolds - International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories
The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by...
13 hours 28 minutes
General Fiction
437
Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy...
12 hours 51 minutes
War & Military
636
Dudley Leigh Aman Marley - Brown Book of the Hitler Terror
The Brown Book was the first English publication to detail events which were currently happening in occupied Germany in 1933; book-burning and the destruction of universities, the development of concentration camps...
11 hours 53 minutes
Literary Fiction
432
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....
11 hours 27 minutes
