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Father Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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Delve into one of Balzacs most celebrated novels, set against the backdrop of 1815, a time marked by the resurgence of the Bourbon monarchy following Napoleons defeat. This poignant tale, which inspired literary giants like Charles Dickens and Henry James, masterfully captures the intricacies of human relationships and the stark realities of society. Explore the shifting social dynamics and moral landscapes of the era as Balzac offers a powerful commentary on ambition, sacrifice, and the bonds of family. (Summary by JCarson)
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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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Manon lescaut + La peau de chagrin [Manon Lescaut + The Skin of Sorrow]
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- By: Abbé Prévost, Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Chloé Bauchet
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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Manon Lescaut est bien plus qu'une simple histoire d'amour passionné ; c'est une plongée profonde dans la psychologie de deux êtres aux prises avec leurs démons intérieurs. Le chevalier des Grieux, jeune homme idéaliste et romantique, est aveuglé par son amour pour Manon, une femme complexe et énigmatique. Leur relation, aussi intense que destructrice, révèle la fragilité de l'âme humaine face aux passions dévorantes.
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Manon lescaut + La peau de chagrin [Manon Lescaut + The Skin of Sorrow]
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- Narrated by: Chloé Bauchet
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: French
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La peau de chagrin [The Skin of Sorrow]
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Chloé Bauchet
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Quitteriez-vous tout ce que vous possédez en échange de l'éternité ? C'est la question existentielle que pose Balzac dans son roman sulfureux, "La Peau de chagrin". Raphaël de Valentin, un jeune homme désabusé, découvre un étrange objet : une peau d'animal capable d'exaucer tous ses désirs. Mais à chaque vœu réalisé, la peau rétrécit inexorablement, raccourcissant ainsi la vie de son propriétaire.
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La peau de chagrin [The Skin of Sorrow]
- Narrated by: Chloé Bauchet
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 20-09-24
- Language: French
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The Balzac Library
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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In this library, dear listener, books do not merely repose upon their shelves: they awaken, they speak, they reveal the secret history of souls. The Balzac Library offers the great works entire, read in full, so that one may enter at leisure into those chambers where ambition burns, love deceives, society calculates, and Paris itself keeps watch at every window. It is a refuge for the curious mind, a salon for the solitary ear, and a doorway into that vast human comedy in which every heart keeps its account.
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Red Inn
- By: Honoré de Balzac
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The Red Inn is a dark and suspenseful tale where two army surgeons become entangled in a chilling murder at a secluded inn. As the tension mounts and secrets unravel, justice and fate hang in the balance. A gripping classic of crime and intrigue.
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Le cousin Pons
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jean-Benoît L'Héritier
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Ce roman fait partie des "Scènes de la vie parisienne" dans la section "Les Parents pauvres" tout comme "La Cousine Bette". Pons, musicien sans fortune, bon et naïf, est traité en parent pauvre par sa riche famille, les Camusot de Marville. Le jour où ils découvrent que la collection d'objets d'art qu'il a accumulée est d'une immense valeur, ils le dépouillent et le font mourir.
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Le cousin Pons
- Narrated by: Jean-Benoît L'Héritier
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 24-06-16
- Language: French
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Eugenia Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Eugenia Grandet fu pubblicato nel 1833, e tradotto in italiano da Grazia Deledda. Il personaggio di papà Grandet è l’archetipo dell’avaro, e la figlia, Eugenia, cresciuta sotto il suo regime monastico, riscatta la sua eredità genetica diventando un fiore purissimo e immacolato nel cuore della provincia Francese, forse proprio perché lontana dall’influenza della “morale parigina”. Un capolavoro della letteratura del maestro della letteratura francese del 1800. Cornice musicale di Fryderyk Chopin.
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Eugenia Grandet
- Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 19-09-12
- Language: Italian
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Il padre Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Riccardo Forte
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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In una Parigi dominata dalla brama di denaro e di potenza, il giovane studente Eugène de Rastignac viene iniziato ai segreti del bel mondo. Ospite della pensione di madame Vauquer, scopre l'ipocrisia che si cela dappertutto, dietro l'amicizia, l'amore, la pietà, il matrimonio, sotto lo splendore aristocratico come nella mediocrità borghese. Capisce che il prezzo da pagare per aver successo è quello di sacrificare i propri ideali e le illusioni giovanili.
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Il padre Goriot
- Narrated by: Riccardo Forte
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-03-19
- Language: Italian
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Adieu
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bernard Petit
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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1812, lors des derniers moments du passage de la Bérézina, Philippe de Sucy tente de sauver d'une mort certaine le général de Vandières et sa jeune épouse qui n'est autre que l'amour de jeunesse de Sucy. 1819, Sucy retrouve la comtesse de Vandières folle et il entreprend de lui rendre la raison. 1830, dix ans après la mort de son premier et seul amour, Philippe se brûle la cervelle.
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Adieu
- Narrated by: Bernard Petit
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 25-06-13
- Language: French
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The Elixir of Life
- By: Honore De Balzac
- Narrated by: Carol Karadağ
- Length: 56 mins
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Don Juan Belvideore, the young and spoiled son of the wealthy aristocrat Bartolammeo Belvidore, visits his father after being told that his father is on death bed by a maid. During this visit, the father tells his son about an elixir in one of his drawers and wants him to put on this liquid on his body after his death. This liquid shall turn him back to life and make him young again. Don Juan who does not follow his dad’s wish at the time, will wish the same thing from his own son.
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The Elixir of Life
- Narrated by: Carol Karadağ
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 12-07-24
- Language: English
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El coronel Chabert [Colonel Chabert]
- Seguido de «El verdugo», «El elixir de larga vida» y «La obra maestra desconocida»
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: David Carrillo
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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El coronel Chabert (1832) es una sobrecogedora novela breve que retrata una sociedad donde la justicia y el honor han perdido su significado. Chabert, héroe de las campañas napoleónicas, es dado por muerto en la batalla de Eylau y arrojado a una fosa. No obstante, el coronel recobra el conocimiento y consigue salir de la tumba. Como si fuera un espectro, regresa a París para reclamar una identidad que nadie le reconoce. Y menos aún su esposa.
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El coronel Chabert [Colonel Chabert]
- Seguido de «El verdugo», «El elixir de larga vida» y «La obra maestra desconocida»
- Narrated by: David Carrillo
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 30-12-21
- Language: Spanish
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El elixir de la larga vida [The Elixir of Long Life]
- Narrated by: Max Garzón
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 20-01-22
- Language: Spanish
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Short Stories About Survival
- By: Honore de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Jack London, and others
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Our ‘fight of flight’ response is something hardwired into the primitive part of our brain. Our need to survive, to outlive whatever danger poses, that immediate threat to our lives is little short of a marvel. Everything else is abandoned in order to survive. Whilst in modern times that ability has been somewhat modified and ‘reasoned’ away to an extent, in past years it’s what usually kept you alive. In this volume people struggle valiantly to survive and to exist no matter the extent of the threat they face.
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Short Stories About Survival
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers, Mark Rice-Oxley, Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-08-23
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet (Spanish Edition)
- By: Honoré de Balzac, Joan Riambau Moller
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Como dijo Oscar Wilde, el siglo XIX es un invento de Balzac. Dentro de La comedia humana, el vasto ciclo de su novelística, Eugénie Grandet ocupa un lugar cenital. La historia del avaro Grandet y de su hija Eugénie, que vive desgarrada entre la tiranía de su padre y su amor por un joven parisino, compone el mejor retrato coral de la sociedad francesa de la época, a la vez que presenta a algunos de los personajes más perfectos de la historia de la literatura.
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Eugénie Grandet (Spanish Edition)
- Narrated by: Diego Rousselon
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-06-22
- Language: Spanish
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Die Frau von dreißig Jahren
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Cornelia Froboess
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Julie, lebensfroh und willensstark, schlägt die Warnungen ihres Vaters in den Wind und heiratet den Offizier Marquis d'Aiglemont. Doch der Triumph über ihre selbstbestimmte Heirat währt nicht lang. Bald erkennt Julie, dass ihr Ehemann zwar rechtschaffen und zuvorkommend aber auch distanziert und sterbenslangweilig ist. Verzweifelt versucht sie ihrem goldenen Käfig zu entfliehen und findet, inzwischen dreißig Jahre alt, Trost in den Armen des Diplomaten Charles de Vandenesse - eine Affäre mit tödlichen Folgen.
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Die Frau von dreißig Jahren
- Narrated by: Cornelia Froboess
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 22-09-15
- Language: German
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Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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"Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu" est une nouvelle d'Honoré de Balzac de 1831. Ce texte, à la fois fantastique et philosophique, est une véritable réflexion sur l'art.
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Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-12-14
- Language: French
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La fanciulla dagli occhi d'oro
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Valter Zanardi
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
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"È questa la storia meravigliosa, impossibile da dimenticare, nella quale la voluttà germoglia dal mistero, l'Oriente dischiude gli occhi grevi nel cuore dell'insonne Parigi, l'avventura si intreccia alla realtà, il fiore dell'anima sboccia sul ciglio di vertigine e morte, e il presente viene illuminato con una fiaccola così vivida da stendersi davanti a noi come le grandi ere di sogni primordiali. Una storia il cui inizio è una descrizione di Parigi, uno smisurato quadro di parole, qualcosa che si innalza, qualcosa che torreggia comeuna montagna di luce scialba e di cieca oscurità."
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La fanciulla dagli occhi d'oro
- Narrated by: Valter Zanardi
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-07-20
- Language: Italian
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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: 25-07-16
- Language: French
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Il capolavoro sconosciuto
- By: Honoré De Balzac
- Narrated by: Valter Zanardi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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In questo celebre e studiato racconto viene preconizzato il destino dell'arte figurativa nel secolo successivo a quello in cui visse il grande scrittore, il suo declino da quel linguaggio o strumento di comunicazione di un uomo con altri uomini, che era stato fin dalle sue origini, all'esercizio solipsistico, egocentrico, solitario e arrogante in cui si sarebbe configurato in epoca moderna.
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Il capolavoro sconosciuto
- Narrated by: Valter Zanardi
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-05-19
- Language: Italian
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