Honore de Balzac Audio Books

Balzac's Father Goriot is the author and playwright's most popular novel, a study of three individuals as they try to try to climb a shifting social latter during a period in French history where social structures were constricting and poverty often led to desperation.

Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honore de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette.

Over twenty years before Anthony Trollope wrote The Warden, in which the gentle but unfortunate Rev. Septimus Harding becomes the prey of an investigative journalist, in 1831 Balzac published his Vicar of Tours.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy.

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.

In the brutal Prussian winter of 1807, Emperor Napole?on Bonaparte's Grande Arme?e suffered massive losses to the Russians in the Battle of Eylau.

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

Impoverished young aristocrat Eugene de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society.

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.

Lisbeth Fischer has lived in the shadow of her beautiful cousin Adeline for much of her life.