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The Unknown Masterpiece
- 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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overpriced but an excellent book
- By T on 02-01-18
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The Unknown Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 02-25-16
- Language: English
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Papa Goriot [Father Goriot]
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Guillermo Piedrahita
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Un padre despreciado por las hijas que ama. El hecho de que el inquilino en la casa de huespedes de Vauquer, Goriot tenga todo el aspecto de un hombre pobre y abandonado por la fortuna no le impide alardear de que sus dos hijas son, respectivamente una duquesa y una baronesa. El padre las ama, pero las hijas que han subido de posicion social lo ignoran y hasta lo desprecian.
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La narración fue muy mala
- By carolina yafe on 04-14-24
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Papa Goriot [Father Goriot]
- Narrated by: Guillermo Piedrahita
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-06-06
- Language: Spanish
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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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beautifully read
- By Anonymous User on 05-07-24
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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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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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Brutal poetic justice
- By Tad Davis on 06-23-20
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La Rabouilleuse
- The Black Sheep; The Two Brothers
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 06-24-19
- Language: English
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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: 08-15-23
- Language: English
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La maison du chat qui pelote
- 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: 09-19-23
- Language: French
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The Elixir of Life
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 53 mins
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The spoiled son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan Belvidero cannot wait for the moment to claim the family wealth and title for himself. His father calls to his death-bed to inform him that he is in possession of a magic, death-defying potion. If the son will only rub the liquid on his dead body, the father will come back to life. Don Juan assures his father that he will resurrect him, but will he keep his promise or betray the old man?
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The Elixir of Life
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 53 mins
- Release date: 04-19-18
- 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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Lourde…
- By LK on 09-14-23
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La cousine Bette
- Narrated by: Manon Combes
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 06-20-16
- 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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Thought provoking tale by Balzac
- By Simon Brodie on 07-05-21
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Colonel Chabert
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-21-21
- Language: English
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1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century
- By: François de La Rochefoucauld, Alphonse de Lamartine, François-René de Chateaubriand, and others
- Narrated by: Brad Carty
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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"1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century" is a wonderful collection of wit and wisdom from some of the greatest French writers ever. From Guy de Maupassant and Honoré de Balzac to Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, this carefully crafted collection is guaranteed to inspire and entertain. Ideal for those needing a dose of encouragement. These French literary giants are responsible for some of the worlds most famous works, including "The Three Musketeers", "Les Misérables", "Madame Bovary" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame".
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1100 Quotations from the Great French Writers of the 19th Century
- Narrated by: Brad Carty
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 05-19-23
- Language: English
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Le père Goriot
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Renaud Duhesdin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Rastignac est un jeune homme de petite noblesse. Il vient à Paris espérant y rencontrer la fortune. Mais il n'a ni l'argent, ni la connaissance de la société parisienne nécessaire. Une de ses cousines lointaines, Madame de Beauséant, une des dernières grandes dames, le prend sous son aile pour l'aider à appréhender ce monde qu'il ne connait pas. Grâce aux femmes, il va apprendre les mœurs de cette société pervertie et en s'adaptant parviendra à en gravir les échelons.
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Renaud Duhesdin
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 06-10-11
- Language: French
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La Piel de Zapa [The Spade Skin]
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Laura Garcia
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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Un joven desilusionado de la vida recibe como regalo una piel de zapa, que le concedera todos sus deseos, pero cada vez que eso sucede, la piel se vuelve mas pequena y cuando ella desaparezca, el joven morira.
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hermosa historia de magia y amor
- By Anonymous User on 02-16-21
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La Piel de Zapa [The Spade Skin]
- Narrated by: Laura Garcia
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-19-06
- Language: Spanish
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The Conscript
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 36 mins
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"The Conscript" is one of the stories from the great collection making up "The Human Comedy"; it captures the human cost of revolution in a terribly touching way. Madame de Dey is a noble, rich widow whose son, an officer in the dragoons, has chosen to follow the princes into exile. She remains behind in a precarious position to look after his fortune. She is now awaiting her son's arrival in disguise.
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The Conscript
- Narrated by: Paul Spera
- Length: 36 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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Крестьяне [The Peasants]
- By: Honore de Balzac
- Narrated by: Yaroslav Lukashev
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
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Роман "Крестьяне" был создан Бальзаком в последний период его творчества. Роман строится на показе широких социальных явлений, на драматическом столкновении массовых материальных интересов. Ни в одном другом своем произведении не ставил с такой мужественной правдивостью и прямотой вопрос о существовании двух наций внутри одного общества - нации господ и рабов, имущих и неимущих, хозяев жизни и обездоленных.
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Крестьяне [The Peasants]
- Narrated by: Yaroslav Lukashev
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 11-01-23
- Language: Russian
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La Rabouilleuse
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Zelda Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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La rabouilleuse est la personne qui trouble l'eau de la rivière afin qu'écrevisses et petits poissons paniqués tombent dans le piège du pêcheur. Agathe est veuve très tôt, coupée de sa riche famille de province pour des raisons obscures, elle doit se débrouiller seule avec ses deux fils que tout oppose. Le beau Philippe, le préféré, blond aux yeux bleus qui devient rapidement capitaine dans l'armée et Joseph, le petit brun taciturne qui a des velléités de devenir peintre. Toutefois les passions des deux frères ne les destineront pas à un sort attendu.
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La Rabouilleuse
- Narrated by: Zelda Perez
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 06-19-19
- Language: French
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Eugénie Grandet
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Claude Bermann
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Ces trois femmes vivent sous la terrible coupe du chef de famille, avaricieux maladif. Dans le voisinage, les beaux partis se disputent l’hypothétique main d’Eugénie dans l’espoir d’épouser la fortune. Mais un évènement imprévu va venir bouleverser cet ordonnancement : le cousin d’Eugénie, un dandy parisien, fils du frère du père Grandet, débarque un soir, porteur d’une missive pour son oncle.
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Eugénie Grandet
- Narrated by: Claude Bermann
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-13-23
- 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: 01-31-05
- Language: French
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Sarrasine
- By: Honoré De Balzac
- Narrated by: John Lang
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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"Sarrasine" (1830) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, part of his Comédie Humaine. The stage is set around midnight during a ball, the narrator is sitting at a window. There is an unknown old man around the house, whom the family was oddly devoted to, and who frightened and intrigued the partygoers. When the man sits next to the narrator's guest, Beatrix Rochefide, she touches him, and the narrator rushes her out of the room. The narrator knows who the man is and says he will tell her his story the next evening.
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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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Boring and hard to find the story
- By Just me on 10-27-11
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Scary Halloween Stories
- Narrated by: Nelson Olmsted, Laurence Olivier, Basil Rathbone
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 06-29-10
- Language: English
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La vieille fille
- By: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Sarah Jalabert
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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ne petite ville assoupie dans ses habitudes, un microcosme de l’ancienne France, une vieille fille riche, Marie-Victoire Cormon, qui hésite entre deux prétendants, le chevalier de Valois et l’ex-citoyen banquier du Bousquier. Le chevalier est vieux, coquet, sans un sou, fidèle aux bourbons. Du Bousquier est arriviste, libéral, au bord de la ruine mais encore à peu près présentable. Grave conflit, lutte de clans : la monarchie contre la révolution, l’ancien temps et sa noblesse contre la richesse acquise dans la tourmente révolutionnaire.
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Excellent
- By BlanchedeCourtnay on 01-11-24
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La vieille fille
- Narrated by: Sarah Jalabert
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 08-30-23
- Language: French
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