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Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot, The Black Sheep & More
- Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Written 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: 2024-04-18
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
- Written 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: 2013-12-24
- Language: English
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La cousine Bette
- Written 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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Ouf!
- By Yzabelle Martineau on 2023-09-28
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La cousine Bette
- Narrated by: Manon Combes
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-20
- Language: French
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Le médecin de campagne
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Pierre Aussedat
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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En 1829, par une jolie matinée de printemps, un homme âgé d'environ cinquante ans suivait à cheval un chemin montagneux qui mène à un gros bourg situé près de la Grande-Chartreuse. Cet homme, le commandant Genestas, en recherche un autre : Monsieur Benassis, médecin de campagne et maire de ce bourg. La rencontre a lieu, mais pourquoi le commandant se présente-t-il sous une fausse identité?
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Le médecin de campagne
- Narrated by: Pierre Aussedat
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-12
- Language: French
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Three Best French Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert
- Written 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: 2017-08-30
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- Written by: Sylvia Raphael - translator, Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
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Honore de Balzac's classic book of revenge and passion in which the title character Bette plots the destruction of various men including her cousin-in-law, Baron Hector Hulot. Bette enlists the help of Valérie, an unhappily married young woman, to seduce Hulot, destroy his life, and take his family's fortune.
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Cousin Bette
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 18 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-08
- Language: English
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Old Goriot
- Written 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 novel that deserves a better recording
- By Taurus29 on 2018-10-24
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Old Goriot
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2011-03-23
- Language: English
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La Rabouilleuse
- The Black Sheep; The Two Brothers
- Written 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: 2019-06-24
- Language: English
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Pere Goriot
- Written 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: 2004-04-08
- Language: English
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La maison du chat qui pelote
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Alain Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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Ce récit écrit en 1829 sera placé, plus tard, par Balzac en ouverture de la Comédie humaine. On y retrouve la trame de ce que seront les romans la composant et l’on y croise déjà les héros des autres épisodes. Tout y préfigure la grande oeuvre de Balzac : les descriptions minutieuses, l’analyse profonde des sentiments, l’histoire dramatique. C’est, en ces quelques pages, une miniature parfaite de tout ce qui suivra.
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La maison du chat qui pelote
- Narrated by: Alain Lawrence
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2023-09-19
- Language: French
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The Magic Skin
- Written 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: 2002-10-18
- Language: English
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La fille aux yeux d'or
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Martine Childe
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Niché au cœur de Paris, l’hôtel particulier des San-Réal est une enclave orientale qui abrite les amours saphiques de la marquise de San-Réal et de Paquita, la Fille aux yeux d’or. Mais la jeune fille est également convoitée par Henri de Marsay, jeune dandy parisien qui en est fou. Le boudoir à l’atmosphère enivrante
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La fille aux yeux d'or
- Narrated by: Martine Childe
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2023-03-03
- Language: French
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Développer sa culture générale avec 10 nouvelles essentielles
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac, Nicolas Gogol, Guy de Maupassant, and others
- Narrated by: Patrick Blandin, Rémi Pous, Delphine Théodore, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Développez votre culture générale et profitez du plaisir de la narration, avec une sélection de nouvelles par les plus grands écrivains, choisies pour leur qualité et aussi pour leur caractère inhabituel. Cette collection vous emmènera du fantastique au désespoir de l'artiste ou de l'écrivain jusqu'à l'humour surréel, avec une narration vivante et talentueuse.
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Flou
- By Liliane Paquet on 2018-11-17
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Développer sa culture générale avec 10 nouvelles essentielles
- Narrated by: Patrick Blandin, Rémi Pous, Delphine Théodore, Nicolas Planchais
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-15
- Language: French
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César Birotteau
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
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Qui est César Birotteau ? Un "honnête" parfumeur, à la tête d'une entreprise familiale, qui entreprend sur le conseil d'un notaire véreux de développer son commerce. Survivra-t-il à sa chimère ? Cette chronique de la bourgeoisie conquérante, des malignités du commerce et de la finance, est ici magnifiquement rapportée par la voix modulée et truculente de Jean-Claude Dreyfus.
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César Birotteau
- Narrated by: Jean-Claude Dreyfus
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2013-11-07
- Language: French
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The Unknown Masterpiece
- Written 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: 2016-02-25
- Language: English
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La duchesse de Langeais
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Fanny Ardant
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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C'est en 1833 qu'Honoré de Balzac écrit "La duchesse de Langeais". À la base de ce roman, le désir de se venger de la marquise de Castries dont il était amoureux et qui l'avait joué. Dans cette transmutation de la réalité en fiction, l'idée de vengeance se perd, et s'élève un chant qui porte l'amour au-delà des règles communes.
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La duchesse de Langeais
- Narrated by: Fanny Ardant
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2005-01-31
- Language: French
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700 citations des grands écrivains français du XIXème siècle
- Written by: Victor Hugo, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, and others
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais, Élodie Huber
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
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Le XIXe siècle en France est un âge d'or littéraire, marqué par des courants très affirmés comme le romantisme, le réalisme, le naturalisme ou le symbolisme, et une évolution moderne de la poésie et du roman qui donna naissance à des chefs-d’œuvre en nombre inégalé. Cette collection de citations présente la pensée de sept figures incontournables du XIXe siècle sous forme concise et accessible.
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700 citations des grands écrivains français du XIXème siècle
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais, Élodie Huber
- Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2017-12-27
- Language: French
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Die Klassiker-Hörbibliothek (Silber-Edition)
- Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac, Fjodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski, Theodor Fontane
- Narrated by: Wilhelm Götze, Rolf Günther, Klaus-Dieter König
- Length: 32 hrs and 26 mins
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Von Balzac über Dostojewskij bis zu Poe. Diese Box hat sie alle! Wer sich dieses Hörbuch, gelesen von exzellenten Sprechern, gönnt, braucht erst einmal kein Buch mehr in die Hand zu nehmen. Ausgewählte Klassiker ganz geballt. Nach dem Hören können Sie mitreden!
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Die Klassiker-Hörbibliothek (Silber-Edition)
- Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Narrated by: Wilhelm Götze, Rolf Günther, Klaus-Dieter König
- Series: Die Klassiker-Hörbibliothek, Book 1
- Length: 32 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2007-08-13
- Language: German
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Father Goriot
- Written 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: 2018-07-21
- Language: English
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Le lys dans la vallée
- Written 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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Original mais longuet!
- By Pierre Gauthier on 2021-03-18
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Le lys dans la vallée
- Narrated by: Philippe Lejour
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2016-04-28
- Language: French
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