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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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Classic masterpiece
- By Gabriel Jianu on 21-09-17
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 25-02-16
- Language: French
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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: 22-06-23
- Language: English
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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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Incredible narration of an excellent book
- By Dublin listener on 04-01-20
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Father Goriot
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 21-07-18
- 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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Fabulous
- By JellyTot on 31-05-21
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Eugenie Grandet
- Narrated by: Peter Newcombe Joyce
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-10-17
- Language: English
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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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Fascinating
- By key E. on 22-08-18
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La cousine Bette
- Narrated by: Manon Combes
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 20-06-16
- 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: 12-02-19
- Language: French
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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: 21-06-21
- Language: English
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Sarrasine [French Version]
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Anne-Sophie Robin
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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Deux récits enchâssés, au croisement du réalisme et du fantastique ; une nouvelle presque oubliée, que sa redécouverte classa parmi les plus grands textes de la littérature ; un jeu complexe d'imbrications entre sculpture, musique et littérature : Sarrasine est un des textes les plus séduisants de Balzac. Une jeune femme ne peut s'empêcher de remarquer le vieillard décharné, pareil à un spectre, qui hante un coin d'une brillante soirée parisienne.
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Sarrasine [French Version]
- Narrated by: Anne-Sophie Robin
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Release date: 31-05-16
- Language: French
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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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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: 01-07-13
- Language: French
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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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Gave up listening.
- By Mrs D. on 28-04-14
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Old Goriot
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 23-03-11
- Language: English
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La femme de trente ans
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Élodie Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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"La femme de trente ans" évoque la condition féminine au travers du récit d'un mariage qui échoue. Julie de Chastillon est une jeune femme poussée trop vite dans le mariage et en quête permanente d'une rencontre amoureuse digne d'être vécue, elle devient adultère. Entre les déceptions dans l'intimité conjugale et le devoir de garder les apparences en société, Balzac nous fait le récit parfaitement réaliste d'une jeune femme "à qui le mariage ne [...] réussit point".
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La femme de trente ans
- Narrated by: Élodie Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-07-16
- Language: French
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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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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: 17-06-16
- Language: French
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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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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Weiße Edition
- By: Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Giovanni Boccaccio, and others
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Der Schimmelreiter" (Storm), "Eine Halligfahrt" (Storm), "Der Löwen- und Sonnenorden" (Tschechow), "Marroca" (de Maupassant), "Das Geheimnis der Marie Roget" (Poe), "Sherlock Holmes und der Mann mit der Schramme" (Doyle), "Die Jungfrau von Thilouze" (Balzac), "Der Abt und die Ehefrau" (Boccaccio), "In der Mondscheingasse" (Zweig), "Die Legende vom heiligen Trinker" (Roth).
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Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur - Weiße Edition
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz, Jürgen Fritsche
- Series: Novellen - 10 Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-10-22
- Language: German
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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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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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Most enjoyable!
- By MR H on 08-09-23
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Classic French Dramas starring Laurence Olivier and Robert Morley, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Laurence Olivier
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 22-04-11
- Language: English
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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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Le Lys dans la vallée
- La Comédie humaine - Scènes de la vie de campagne
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Félix de Vandenesse livre par écrit à sa fiancée les secrets de sa vie passée. Il est le cadet d'une famille aristocratique mais fut délaissé et mal-aimé dès son plus jeune âge. Son honnêteté le conduit à révéler sa rencontre avec Henriette de Mortsauf, qu'il le bouleversa tout jeune homme. La comtesse était mariée et leur relation prendra une tournure ambigüe, à la fois mère de substitution, confidente et femme idéalisée.
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Le Lys dans la vallée
- La Comédie humaine - Scènes de la vie de campagne
- Narrated by: Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: French
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