Honore de Balzac Audio Books

Said to have been an inspiration to Charles Dickens and Henry James as well as others, the novel seeks to portray the realism of scenes and people.

Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck.

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.

Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal with the matter".

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine.

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

Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel.

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works.

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

Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/money lender the father Goriot utilized to maintain his spoiled daughters in the luxury he had accostomed them to.