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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

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.

Cousin Bette is one of the best-loved and most admired of Honore de Balzac's novels....