Honore de Balzac Audio

Bette is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline.

A tragic novella with characters beset with living in the masculine realities of the 19th Century.

Our beautiful, androgynous hero, Henri de Marsay, is one of the bastard offspring of a depraved Regency milord and himself practises the cynical arts of the libertine. His quarry is the exotic Paquita Valdes, she of the golden eyes.

No one plumbs deeper depths of the psyche than French and Russian authors. This wide-ranging...

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade).

The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it...

Balzac’s great theme was money, its uses and abuses.

One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age.

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor's shocking journey to his coming of age. However it is also the story of La Zambinella, an Italian singer with whom Sarrasine falls madly and passionately in love.