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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Felix Grandet, having married well and become a wealthy landowner and wine-grower, is a miser who watches like a hawk the sugar lumps and the bread slices. The question of who will marry his daughter and inherit his fortune fuels endless speculation in the town of Saumur. The arrival of Eugénie’s cousin sparks feelings and a resolve that puts her on a collision course with her father’s control. As the years pass and she must navigate the self-interest of potential suitors, we see how habits manifest themselves in a new generation.
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Justin Avoth
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-07-2025
- Language: English
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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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Father Goriot
- By: Honoré 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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Short Stories About Suicide
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives. Indeed their lives, in their own eyes, become almost meaningless, their sense of themselves subsumed under a myriad of problems, whether real or imagined. Seismic events in a life might crush them; the loss of a loved one for instance. Coping is difficult, support hard to find and isolation abounds.
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Short Stories About Suicide
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2023
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- By: Honoré 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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Fantastic story of Parisian decadence
- By mei on 30-05-2025
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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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Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot, The Black Sheep & More
- Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Douglas Hodge, David Ross, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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This brilliant collection of France’s foremost nineteenth-century novelist and playwright delivers four of his most fascinating works - stories of love, rivalry, horror and adventure - all brought to life by a stellar cast included Stephen Fry and Alex Kingston. A huge influence on many of the most famous writers from Proust to Kerouac to Dickens, Balzac delivers beautifully observed and complex characters with an unsurpassed attention to the details of society at the time, making him an exemplary of realism in European literature.
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Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot, The Black Sheep & More
- Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Douglas Hodge, David Ross, Geoffrey Banks, Alex Kingston, Denys Hawthorne, Ronald Herdman, David Calder, Dorien Thomas, Geoffrey Whitehead, Thomas Arnold, Elizabeth Cassidy, Matthew Pidgeon, full cast
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 18-04-2024
- 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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La peau de chagrin
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jacques Roland
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Dans "La Peau de chagrin", un de ses premiers romans à coloration fantastique, Balzac nous dévoile le mythe sans doute le plus central dans "La Comédie Humaine"...
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La peau de chagrin
- Narrated by: Jacques Roland
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2013
- Language: French
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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honoré de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette. The daughter of a wealthy but miserly man, Eugénie Grandet falls in love with her penniless cousin, Charles. The two plan to marry, but at the behest of her father, Charles must first go overseas to make his fortune. Returning years later, Charles calls off the engagement, leaving Eugénie heartbroken and vengeful.
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 24-12-2013
- Language: English
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La Rabouilleuse
- The Black Sheep; The Two Brothers
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Brothers Philippe and Joseph Bridau are completely unalike: Philippe, braggart and soldier, formerly aide-de-camp to Napoleon, is their mother Agathe's favorite; Joseph, a poor and aspiring artist, is raised in his brother's shadow. When Agathe is reduced to poverty and Philippe accrues gambling debts, the family join forces to focus their attentions on Agathe's brother, Jean-Jacques Rouget, heir to the family fortune. The struggle for his inheritance pits the family against Rouget's beautiful maid Flore ("La Rabouilleuse"), the apple of her master's eye, and her crafty lover.
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La Rabouilleuse
- The Black Sheep; The Two Brothers
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2019
- Language: English
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The French Classics Collection: 17 Stories From Zola, Proust, Verne, Victor Hugo, Flaubert, Balzac, Dumas, Voltaire, & More
- Candide, Chéri, Germinal, Swann's Way, Les Miserables, Madame Bovary, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, & Much More
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Pierre Chodrelosde Laclos, Émile Zola, and others
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, George Blagden, and others
- Length: Not Yet Known
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The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.
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The French Classics Collection: 17 Stories From Zola, Proust, Verne, Victor Hugo, Flaubert, Balzac, Dumas, Voltaire, & More
- Candide, Chéri, Germinal, Swann's Way, Les Miserables, Madame Bovary, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, & Much More
- Narrated by: David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble, George Blagden, Daniel Weyman, Rachel Atkins, Nicholas Boulton, full cast
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 16-03-2026
- Language: English
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Orange Edition
- By: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Giovanni Boccaccio, Selma Lagerlöf, and others
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche, Tim Eriksson
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Die Verwandlung" (F. Kafka), "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" (E. T. A. Hoffmann), "Der böse Knabe" (A. Tschechow), "Der Untergang der Carnatic" (A. J. Mordtmann), "Julie Romain" (G. de Maupassant), "Die schöne Wäscherin von Pontillon" (H. de Balzac), "Der Mann in Frauenkleidern" (G. Boccaccio), "Eine Geschichte aus Jerusalem" (S. Lagerlöf), "Die unsichtbare Sammlung" (S. Zweig), "Stationschef Fallmerayer" (J. Roth).
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Orange Edition
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche, Tim Eriksson
- Series: Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2022
- Language: German
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Classic French Dramas Starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 1
- By: Theatre Royal, Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
- Length: 47 mins
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of France. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘The Purse’, adapted from the original tale by Honore de Balzac and Laurence Olivier starring in 'Zaramfeski's Duel' adapted from the original tale by Alexandre Dumas.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.
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Classic French Dramas Starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
- Length: 47 mins
- Release date: 25-04-2011
- Language: English
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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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The Magic Skin
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: John Bolen
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it." Raphael, a failed writer, deep in debt, and unrequited in love, is about to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Just in time, he discovers the "Magic Skin" in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant every wish but it extracts a terrible toll! This parable depicts the malaise of 19th century France.
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The Magic Skin
- Narrated by: John Bolen
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-10-2002
- Language: English
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Classic French Dramas starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 2
- By: Theatre Royal, Jules Romains, Honoré de Balzac, and others
- Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
- Length: 58 mins
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Fully restored and remastered, Heritage Media presents the greatest of vintage artists in classic dramas from the literature of France. Here is the legendary Laurence Olivier starring in ‘Little Louise’, adapted from the original tale by Guy de Maupassant and Robert Morley starring in 'Doctor Knock' adapted from the original tale by Jules Romains.Theatre Royal is a unique series of classic radio dramas produced in the 1950's by the late Harry Alan Towers.
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Classic French Dramas starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 22-04-2011
- Language: English
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Colonel Chabert
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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In the brutal Prussian winter of 1807, Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée suffered massive losses to the Russians in the Battle of Eylau. Many thousands died. Young Colonel Chabert falls heroically, his actions having turned the tide of the battle, but he is buried anonymously on the battlefield in a mass grave. Incredibly, he is alive, but severely injured, and digs himself out. On his eventual return to Paris, he finds his wife, the beautiful and ambitious Rosine, now remarried, and his fortune gone.
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Colonel Chabert
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-06-2021
- Language: English
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Forbidden Love - Short Stories
- By: Joseph Conrad, Honore de Balzac, Elizabeth Gaskell, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Love has many forms, many needs. Some fall into the dark, into the shadows. Forbidden love has connotations of desire, of possession but also of matters far more unsavoury. It’s a delicate facet of love that our classic authors explain with careful words and superbly crafted narratives.
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Forbidden Love - Short Stories
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2025
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- By: Honoré 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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Old Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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Balzac’s universally loved novel explores the great theme of money and its effect on the human character. Old Goriot is a lodger at Madame Vauquer’s Parisian boarding house. At first, his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are reduced, he is gradually shunned. He moves into smaller and less desirable rooms in the house, and soon his only remaining visitors are two beautiful young women. The mystery as to who they are and what is happening to Goriot’s fortune involves several other boarders, including Rastignac, an ambitious youth who hopes to rise in society.
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good story but kept skipping
- By Huw on 22-08-2016
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Old Goriot
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-03-2011
- Language: English
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