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Las ilusiones perdidas [The Lost Illusions]
- By: Honoré de Balzac, José Ramón Monreal Salvador
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 25 hrs and 22 mins
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Obra maestra de Balzac, Las ilusiones perdidas cuenta la historia de un joven de provincias con ambiciones artísticas que sueña con triunfar en París. La odisea de Lucien Rubempré desde la inocencia de su Angulema natal hasta el fango del fracaso constituye uno de los periplos narrativos más audaces, embelesadores e imponentes de la narrativa del siglo XIX.
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Las ilusiones perdidas [The Lost Illusions]
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 25 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 18-11-21
- Language: Spanish
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Développer sa culture générale avec 10 nouvelles essentielles
- 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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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: 15-11-18
- Language: French
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Cousin Bette
- 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: 08-04-13
- Language: English
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Les chouans
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Alain Lawrence
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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En 1799, sous la Révolution française, des paysans bretons s'arment pour le retour du roi et contre la troupe républicaine du commandant Hulot. Une aristocrate, Marie de Verneuil, est envoyée par Joseph Fouché pour séduire et capturer leur chef, le Marquis de Montauran, dit le Gars. Elle doit être aidée par un policier habile, ambitieux et peu scrupuleux, Corentin. Cependant, elle tombe amoureuse de sa cible.
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Les chouans
- Narrated by: Alain Lawrence
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-07-15
- Language: French
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Les Paysans
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Zelda Perez
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Un fils d'ébéniste, suite à une brillante carrière militaire est anobli par Napoléon, devenu le comte de Montcornet, il épouse une aristocrate et rachète un domaine en Bourgogne. C'est alors qu'il sera confronté à une ruralité plus rétive que prévu.
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Les Paysans
- Narrated by: Zelda Perez
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 12-06-19
- Language: French
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Catherine De Medici
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Dive into the intricate world of Catherine de Medici, a captivating exploration rooted in the Philosophical Studies from *The Human Comedy* (La Comédie Humaine). This work serves as both a historical examination and a fictional narrative, blending fact with imaginative storytelling. Here, Catherine de Medici emerges not merely as a ruler often portrayed negatively by historians, but as a formidable leader who skillfully navigates the complexities of her court to enhance the lives of her subjects and herself. Through rich dialogues and vivid scenes, the book endeavors to reshape our ...
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Scènes de la vie privée [Scenes from Private Life]
- By: Honore de Balzac
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz, Françoise Gillard, Pierre-François Garel, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
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La Comédie humaine est le titre sous lequel Honoré de Balzac a regroupé un ensemble de plus de quatre-vingt-dix ouvrages—romans, nouvelles, contes et essais—de genres réaliste, romantique, fantastique ou philosophique, et dont l'écriture s'échelonne de 1829 à 1850. Par cette œuvre, Balzac veut faire une « histoire naturelle de la société », explorant de façon systématique les groupes sociaux et les rouages de la société, afin de brosser une vaste fresque de son époque susceptible de servir de référence aux générations futures.
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Scènes de la vie privée [Scenes from Private Life]
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz, Françoise Gillard, Pierre-François Garel, Vanessa Bile-Audouard
- Length: 20 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 29-07-23
- Language: French
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Gambara
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Françoise Malettra
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Roman de l'absolu dans l'art et dans l'amour, "Gambara" est une réflexion sur l'écart entre la théorie et la pratique, le savoir et l'inspiration, la femme idéale et la femme réelle. Balzac a écrit en 1839 l'histoire du Signore Paolo Gambara, musicien pauvre qui rêve de composer un opéra, "Mahomet", et ne parvient pas à l'écrire. Pas plus qu'il ne parvient à reconnaître chez sa propre femme les sentiments qu'il prête à l'épouse de son héros.
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Gambara
- Narrated by: Françoise Malettra
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 14-12-04
- Language: French
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Marriage Contract
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Balzac’s novel “The Marriage Contract” (1835) is part of his “Scenes of Private Life,” which is one section of “The Human Comedy,” his great fiction series. A wealthy gentleman wishes to marry a beautiful heiress, whose mother is a Spanish Creole. (In this context, “Creole” refers to a person who is genetically European, but born in a New World colony.) As was common for wealthy families of that time, notaries are hired to negotiate a prenuptial agreement. The details of 19th-century financial arrangements may well seem obscure for modern readers. What remains true throughout...
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Commission in Lunacy
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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“The Commission in Lunacy” is a short novel first published in 1836 with the French title “L’interdiction” (i.e., “The Ban” or “The Prohibition”). An aristocratic woman wants the courts to declare her estranged husband mentally incompetent to manage his own affairs. To achieve this, the petition must pass through the hands of an examining judge — a man of old-fashioned integrity and conscience. In this story of Parisian society, we see Balzac developing techniques of rich character portrayal and psychological realism. - Summary by Bruce Pirie
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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were published between 1838 and 1847. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. The French title — Splendeurs et misères des courtesanes — literally, Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans — has also been translated as A Harlot High and Low. The story picks up at the end of Lost Illusions (1843), an earlier novel by Balzac. At the end of that book, Lucien ...
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Lost Illusions: Two Poets
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. We meet Lucien Chardon, a young provincial who romantically aspires to be a poet, and his friend David Séchard, who struggles to manage his father’s printing shop and falls in love with Lucien’s sister Ève. The picture of provincial life that emerges is laced with greed, ambition, and duplicity. Balzac’s ...
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Lost Illusions: Ève and David
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he ...
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La duchesse de Langeais
- 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". A 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: 31-01-05
- 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: 24-12-13
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Philippe Lebeau
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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Dans la ville de Saumur vit modestement la famille Grandet : le père Felix Grandet ex-tonnelier devenu richissime après de fructueuses spéculations, son épouse, sa fille Eugénie et Nanon la servante. Ces trois femmes subissent au quotidien son avarice sordide, ses colères de despote.
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Philippe Lebeau
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 21-04-23
- Language: French
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Une ténébreuse affaire [A Dark Affair]
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Marie Stephane Cattaneo
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Dans Une ténébreuse affaire, l'un des volumes les moins connus de la Comédie humaine, Balzac utilise un fait divers—l'enlévement mystérieux, sous le Premier Empire, d'un sénateur averti du complot ourdi par Fouché contre Napoléon Bonaparte—pour écrire un livre où il met son talent romanesque au service d'une intrigue politique et policiére.
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Une ténébreuse affaire [A Dark Affair]
- Narrated by: Marie Stephane Cattaneo
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 29-03-23
- Language: French
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Verlorene Illusionen
- Narrated by: Christian Brückner
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-05-12
- Language: German
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Scary Halloween Stories
- By: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerome K. Jerome, and others
- Narrated by: Nelson Olmsted, Laurence Olivier, Basil Rathbone
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
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Nine spine-chilling stories from Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jerome K. Jerome, read by Laurence Olivier, Nelson Olmsted, and Basil Rathbone.
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- By M. R. on 18-07-25
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Scary Halloween Stories
- Narrated by: Nelson Olmsted, Laurence Olivier, Basil Rathbone
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-06-10
- Language: English
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12 Cuentos Cortos Clásicos Vol. II [12 Classic Short Stories Vol. II]
- By: Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Perrault, and others
- Narrated by: Max Garzón
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.
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12 Cuentos Cortos Clásicos Vol. II [12 Classic Short Stories Vol. II]
- Narrated by: Max Garzón
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-10-24
- Language: Spanish
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