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Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Classic Audiobook Collection
07/19/23
•450m
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Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac audiobook.
Genre: drama
Eugenie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honore de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comedie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story deals with money, avarice, love, and obsession. A wealthy old miser must manage the passion of his innocent daughter, who later has to navigate on her own the treacherous ways of a world in which money is 'the only god.' Balzac's meticulous use of psychological and physical detail influenced the development of 19th-century literary realism, in the hands of writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, and Henry James.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:33:24) Chapter 02
(01:11:37) Chapter 03
(01:50:20) Chapter 04
(02:33:20) Chapter 05
(03:00:18) Chapter 06
(03:29:32) Chapter 07
(03:57:39) Chapter 08
(04:32:30) Chapter 09
(05:06:46) Chapter 10
(05:35:38) Chapter 11
(06:03:47) Chapter 12
(06:30:25) Chapter 13
(06:52:23) Chapter 14
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Genre: philosophy
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:22:02) Chapter 02
(00:51:47) Chapter 03
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The Chouans by Honore de Balzac ~ Full Audiobook [history]
July 20, 2023
•969m
The Chouans by Honore de Balzac audiobook.
Genre: history
Set in the wild, hedgerowed countryside of Brittany in 1799, The Chouans throws the listener into the last violent aftershocks of the French Revolution. The Republic is fighting to stamp out a Royalist guerrilla uprising, and every road, inn, and village chapel can hide an ambush. Into this tense landscape comes Marie de Verneuil, a captivating young woman tied to the Parisian authorities and sent on a delicate mission: to draw close to the feared insurgent leader, the Marquis de Montauran, and help bring his rebellion to an end. But Montauran is no simple villain; he is a charismatic commander caught between honor, duty, and survival, while Republican strategist Hulot and shadowy police agents tighten the net around the countryside. As Marie moves through a world of coded loyalties and sudden violence, politics and passion collide, and private desires threaten to undo public plans. Balzac blends battlefield suspense with intimate psychological drama, exploring how love, ambition, and ideology can turn allies into enemies and make truth a weapon in a fractured nation.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 01
(00:38:48) Chapter 02
(01:12:03) Chapter 03
(01:52:00) Chapter 04
(02:19:39) Chapter 05
(02:50:54) Chapter 06
(03:21:23) Chapter 07
(03:56:53) Chapter 08
(04:24:15) Chapter 09
(04:54:44) Chapter 10
(05:31:51) Chapter 11
(06:09:20) Chapter 12
(06:53:20) Chapter 13
(07:28:27) Chapter 14
(07:56:35) Chapter 15
(08:27:10) Chapter 16
(09:00:43) Chapter 17
(09:39:04) Chapter 18
(10:09:38) Chapter 19
(10:38:11) Chapter 20
(11:17:29) Chapter 21
(11:52:55) Chapter 22
(12:18:32) Chapter 23
(13:02:51) Chapter 24
(13:31:06) Chapter 25
(14:00:31) Chapter 26
(14:27:30) Chapter 27
(14:47:56) Chapter 28
(15:20:34) Chapter 29
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