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12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- By: Honore de Balzac, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, and others
- Length: 89 hrs and 18 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1 and learn about these classic books: Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, and more....
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12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, Mark F. Smith, Elizabeth Klett, John Greenman, Craig Franklin, Adrian Praetzellis, Aaron Blain, Peter Tucker
- Length: 89 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-12-2020
- Language: English
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An Episode of the Reign of Terror
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) is arguably the greatest European novelist in terms of the range and power of his writing. Most of his short stories predate his long novels and are written in a different style. One of the earliest is An Episode of the Reign of Terror in which two nuns and a priest in hiding from the mob are visited by a stranger with a very peculiar request, and even odder motives behind it.
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An Episode of the Reign of Terror
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 44 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2014
- Language: English
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Le père Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Rastignac, resté seul, fit quelques pas vers le haut du cimetière et vit Paris tortueusement couché le long des deux rives de la Seine où commençaient à briller les lumières. Ses yeux s'attachèrent presque avidement entre la colonne Vendôme et le dôme des Invalides, là où vivait ce beau monde dans lequel il avait voulu pénétrer. Il lança sur cette ruche bourdonnante un regard qui semblait par avance pomper le miel, et dit ces mots grandioses : "À nous deux maintenant !"
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2016
- Language: French
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Father Goriot
- By: Honore de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs
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Impoverished young aristocrat Eugene de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society. While staying at the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris's rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, he encounters Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who has spent his entire fortune supporting his two daughters. The boarders strike up a friendship and Goriot learns of Rastignac's feelings for his daughter Delphine. He begins to see Rastignac as the ideal son-in-law, and the perfect substitute for Delphine's domineering husband. But Rastignac has other opportunities too....
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Father Goriot
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 21-07-2018
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- By: Honore de Balzac
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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The Bette referred to in this magnificent novel's title is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline. That family is slowly being ruined by the uncontrollable sexual appetites of Adeline's husband, Baron Hulot - appetites that will, in time, give Cousin Bette opportunity to exact her vengeance.
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Cousin Bette
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2006
- Language: English
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Pere Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs
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One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature. In 1833 he conceived the idea of linking together his novels so that they would comprehend the whole society in a series of books. This plan eventually led to 90 novels and novellas (including more than 2,000 characters) that he called "The Human Comedy". Balzac's huge and ambitious plan drew a picture of the customs, atmosphere, and habits of the bourgeois France.
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Pere Goriot
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 08-04-2004
- Language: English
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Le Pere Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Honoré de Balzac uses his classic style of detail to describe a most controversial setting in his novel Le Pere Goriot. The story takes place in Paris just after the fall of Napoleon in 1819. The story focuses on three characters, Rastignac, a student who wants to try and make it big in the capital, Vautrin, an interesting and funny character who is also quite mysterious, and the main character, Goriot, that carries a heavy burden that only a loving parent would endure.
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- By Bridget on 09-02-2018
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Le Pere Goriot
- Narrated by: David McCallion
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 11-11-2016
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- By: Honore de Balzac
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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Lisbeth Fischer has lived in the shadow of her beautiful cousin Adeline for much of her life. Pampered while Lisbeth works in the fields, Adeline makes an enviable leap in status when Baron Hulot offers her his hand in marriage. Out of kindness, they bring Lisbeth to Paris, where she falls in love with the artist Wenceslas, her protege. However, when she is jilted for Adeline's daughter Hortense, her jealousy and rage exponentially intensify, and she resolves to bring the Hulot family to ruin, employing the cold seductress Valerie Marneffe as her vehicle for revenge.
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Cousin Bette
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-05-2020
- Language: English
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Bilingual Classic Novels - Father Goriot
- English-French
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, Bernard, Aaron Blain
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
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The novel takes place during the Bourbon Restoration, which brought profound changes to French society; the struggle by individuals to secure a higher social status is a major theme in the book. The city of Paris also impresses itself on the characters – especially young Rastignac, who grew up in the provinces of southern France. Balzac analyzes, through Goriot and others, the nature of family and marriage, providing a pessimistic view of these institutions.
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Bilingual Classic Novels - Father Goriot
- English-French
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, Bernard, Aaron Blain
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 08-10-2020
- Language: English
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César Birotteau
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Marc-Henri Boisse
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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"La Spéculation, dit le parfumeur, quel est ce commerce ? C'est le commerce abstrait, reprit Claparon, un commerce qui restera secret pendant une dizaine d'années encore, au dire du grand Nucingen, le Napoléon de la finance, et par lequel un homme embrasse les totalités des chiffres, écrème les revenus avant qu'ils n'existent, une conception gigantesque, une façon de mettre l'espérance en coupes réglées, enfin une nouvelle Cabale !"
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César Birotteau
- Narrated by: Marc-Henri Boisse
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 02-09-2016
- Language: French
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Le père Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Voici donc l'histoire de ce père Goriot, vermicellien ayant fait fortune et qui, tel l'Albatros de Baudelaire, se déchirera les entrailles pour élever ses enfants. Mais, malgré le titre du roman, en est-ce vraiment le héros où est-ce Eugène de Rastignac, jeune homme issu d'une noble mais pauvre famille, venu faire des études de droit à Paris et qui va essayer par tous les moyens de se hisser dans l'échelle sociale parisienne ?
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2016
- Language: French
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Three Best French Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert
- By: Guy der Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré der Balzac
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh, Paul Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Enjoy the short stories of three of the greatest writers of French literature, for the first time assembled together in audiobook and narrated in a lively way. Guy de Maupassant was an absolute master of the short story genre, delighting in clever plotting, concise style, and efficient storytelling, which he used to produce stunning pieces in a very condensed format. He produced more than 300 short stories; we selected for you nine of the most bizarre, influent, humorous or plain shocking.
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Three Best French Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh, Paul Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 30-08-2017
- Language: English
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Illusions perdues
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
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Inspiré à Balzac par son expérience dans l'imprimerie, Illusions perdues raconte l'échec de Lucien de Rubempré, jeune provincial épris de gloire littéraire. En contrepoint au parcours malheureux de ce "grand homme de province", alternativement héros et antihéros plein de faiblesses, l'histoire évoque les modèles de vertu que sont la famille de Lucien et le "Cénacle", cercle intellectuel de "vrais grands hommes".
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Illusions perdues
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2019
- Language: French
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Eugenie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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At the beginning of the story the heroine lives an unfulfilled life in rural France, her nature crushed by a domineering and miserly father. Gallant cousin Charles arrives and acts as a catalyst on Eugénie's personality and emotions. Will her love survive the strong self-opinion of the young man and the selfishness of her father or is Eugénie's reward destined to be in heaven?
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Eugenie Grandet
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-10-2017
- Language: English
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Le lys dans la vallée
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Philippe Lejour
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Felix de Vandenesse, cadet rejeté d'une famille noble mais ruinée, tombe amoureux d'une femme magnifique, généreuse et honnête : la comtesse de Mortsauf. Mariée à un homme sombre, lunatique et mélancolique, mère de deux enfants dont l'aîné est gravement malade, elle trouve en Felix une échappatoire à ses ennuis familiaux et domestiques. Mais sa droiture l'oblige à un amour chaste et platonique. Elle se met en devoir de donner aides et conseils à son ami.
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Le lys dans la vallée
- Narrated by: Philippe Lejour
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2016
- Language: French
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Le père Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Renaud Duhesdin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Rastignac est un jeune homme de petite noblesse. Il vient à Paris espérant y rencontrer la fortune. Mais il n'a ni l'argent, ni la connaissance de la société parisienne nécessaire. Une de ses cousines lointaines, Madame de Beauséant, une des dernières grandes dames, le prend sous son aile pour l'aider à appréhender ce monde qu'il ne connait pas. Grâce aux femmes, il va apprendre les mœurs de cette société pervertie et en s'adaptant parviendra à en gravir les échelons.
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Renaud Duhesdin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 10-06-2011
- Language: French
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 20 hrs
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Par cette fresque aux allures de roman policier, Balzac dépeint et fustige les incohérences sociales, politiques et judiciaires de son époque. Paru sous forme de feuilleton entre 1838 et 1847, "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes" est un roman foisonnant de personnages hauts en couleur mêlant intrigues amoureuses et policières dans le Paris interlope du XIXème siècle. Le jeune et beau Lucien, monté à la capitale avec des ambitions littéraires sera confronté aux milieux du crime et de la prostitution, tombera sous l'emprise d'un ancien bagnard.
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 12-02-2019
- Language: French
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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Françoise Gillard
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Le père d'Eugénie Grandet a été tonnelier. Grâce à un sens aigu des affaires et une grande avarice, il a réussi à faire fortune en profitant des événements de cette époque instable. Autrefois maire de Saumur, il fait maintenant fructifier sa grande fortune tout en faisant croire à sa femme et à sa fille qu'ils ne sont pas bien riches. Les habitants de Saumur, plus au courant de la fortune du père Grandet, voient en sa fille Eugénie le plus beau parti de la ville et la courtisent donc ardemment.
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Françoise Gillard
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-06-2016
- Language: French
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La cousine Bette
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Manon Combes
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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C'est le premier portrait de femme profondément destructrice, rancunière et laide que Balzac ait produit. Elle se voit apparentée à un animal malfaisant : "ses sourcils épais réunis par un bouquet, sa face longue et simiesque laissent deviner derrière la paysanne des Vosges un caractère de sauvage". Et c'est bien d'une sauvage dont il s'agit. La cousine est animée d'une rage et d'une passion impuissante. Telle une araignée tissant sa toile, elle gaspille une énergie folle à nuire sans recueillir les fruits de ses intrigues, pourtant patiemment élaborées.
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La cousine Bette
- Narrated by: Manon Combes
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2016
- Language: French
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The Unknown Masterpiece
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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"The unknown masterpiece", or "Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu", is a story by the French author Honoré de Balzac. This short text was of tremendous importance in the world of art, for it holds a groundbreaking reflection about artistic creation: what does completion or failure mean, and how is it that technique does not guarantee either. Paul Cézanne famously said "I am Frenhofer", identifying with the old master around which the story revolves. Pablo Picasso himself was absolutely fascinated by the text, so much that he had his studio moved in the Parisian street named in the story; there, he painted his own masterpiece, Guernica.
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The Unknown Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2016
- Language: English
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