Honoré de Balzac
Featured Article: Top Ten Best French Authors on Audible Canada
Few countries have housed writers whose works are as enduring and celebrated as the French. From Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Marcel Proust, and Emile Zola, to heartwarming French Canadian tales by Gabrielle Roy and Rich Carrier, French authors have brought us some of the best stories throughout the decades. This list looks at some of the best works from classic French writers and Canadian favourites alike, exploring the importance of French literature and the French voice. Each of these works has been translated from française and is performed for English-speaking audiences while maintaining the famous French style that makes these short stories, novels and audiobooks the classics that they are.
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12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- Written by: Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, and others
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, and others
- Length: 89 hrs and 18 mins
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to 12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1 and learn about these classic books: Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, and more....
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Poorly narrated first book, but it gets better.
- By Phil on 2022-06-19
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12 Books to Read Before You Die, Volume 1
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, David Clarke, Phil Chenevert, Mark F. Smith, Elizabeth Klett, John Greenman, Craig Franklin, Adrian Praetzellis, Aaron Blain, Peter Tucker
- Series: Twain's Tom and Huck, Book 1-2, Alice in Wonderland, Book 1
- Length: 89 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2020-12-17
- Language: English
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Illusions perdues
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
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Inspiré à Balzac par son expérience dans l'imprimerie, Illusions perdues raconte l'échec de Lucien de Rubempré, jeune provincial épris de gloire littéraire...
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Tout simplement génial
- By Yann on 2024-03-24
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Illusions perdues
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-22
- Language: French
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Le père Goriot
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Voici donc l'histoire de ce père Goriot, vermicellien ayant fait fortune et qui, tel l'Albatros de Baudelaire, se déchirera les entrailles pour élever ses enfants...
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Un livre intéressant
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2016-02-25
- Language: French
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 20 hrs
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Par cette fresque aux allures de roman policier, Balzac dépeint et fustige les incohérences sociales, politiques et judiciaires de son...
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Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 2019-02-12
- Language: French
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La duchesse de Langeais
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Fanny Ardant
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Fanny Ardant nous conte l'histoire de "La duchesse de Langeais" de Balzac. A la base de ce roman, le désir de se venger de la marquise de Castries dont il était amoureux et qui l'avait joué...
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La duchesse de Langeais
- Narrated by: Fanny Ardant
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2005-01-31
- Language: French
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Le Pere Goriot
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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At the shabby boarding house in the rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, petty Madame Vauquer and her tenants wonder at the plight of the aging resident Goriot....
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Le Pere Goriot
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2007-01-05
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
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The Bette referred to in this magnificent novel's title is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge....
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Cousin Bette
- Narrated by: Johanna Ward
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2006-11-22
- Language: English
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Colonel Chabert
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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In the brutal Prussian winter of 1807, Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée suffered massive losses to the Russians in the Battle of Eylau. Many thousands died. Young Colonel Chabert falls heroically, his actions having turned the tide of the battle....
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Colonel Chabert
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-21
- Language: English
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Les Chats
- À travers 17 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
- Written by: Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Allan Poe, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Jeannin
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
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Pourquoi le chat s'en va-t-il tout seul ? Les chats anglais sont-ils vraiment les plus distingués ? Par quel prodige cet animal maléfique est-il devenu, au...
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Les Chats
- À travers 17 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
- Narrated by: Simon Jeannin
- Series: Cultes
- Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2023-12-26
- Language: French
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Le père Goriot
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Rastignac, resté seul, fit quelques pas vers le haut du cimetière et vit Paris tortueusement couché le long des deux rives de la Seine...
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Toujours actuel!
- By Joe Binne on 2019-08-06
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Le père Goriot
- Narrated by: Michel Vuillermoz
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-25
- Language: French
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La peau de chagrin
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jacques Roland
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Dans "La Peau de chagrin", un de ses premiers romans à coloration fantastique, Balzac nous dévoile le mythe sans doute le plus central dans "La Comédie Humaine"...
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La peau de chagrin
- Narrated by: Jacques Roland
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-01
- Language: French
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Le cousin Pons
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Jean-Benoît L'Héritier
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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Pons, musicien sans fortune, bon et naïf, est traité en parent pauvre par sa riche famille, les Camusot de Marville. Le jour où ils découvrent que...
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Le cousin Pons
- Narrated by: Jean-Benoît L'Héritier
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-24
- Language: French
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Short Stories About Suicide
- Written by: Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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Life has the capacity of great moments and attainment, of lives well lived, fulfilling for ourselves and for those we touch. But for others life is arduous. There is no spark to ignite the curiosity, to explore and achieve a stability and a growth to their lives....
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Short Stories About Suicide
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Laurel Lefkow, Mark Rice-Oxley
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2023-06-22
- Language: English
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Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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"Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu" est une nouvelle d'Honoré de Balzac de 1831. Ce texte, à la fois fantastique et philosophique, est une véritable réflexion sur l'art...
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Le chef-d'œuvre inconnu
- Narrated by: Nicolas Planchais
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 2014-12-01
- Language: French
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Manger
- À travers 19 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
- Written by: Sylvain Trias, Émile Zola, Marcel Proust, and others
- Narrated by: Simon Jeannin
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
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Faut-il manger pour vivre, ou vivre pour manger ? La madeleine de Proust est-elle vraiment celle que l'on croit ? La trompe d'éléphant est-elle comestible...
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Manger
- À travers 19 textes cultes commentés de la littérature classique
- Narrated by: Simon Jeannin
- Series: Cultes
- Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2023-12-29
- Language: French
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Bilingual Classic Novels - Father Goriot
- English-French
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, Bernard, Aaron Blain
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
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Set in Paris in 1819, it follows the intertwined lives of three characters: the elderly doting Goriot, a mysterious criminal-in-hiding named Vautrin, and a naive law student named Eugène de Rastignac....
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Bilingual Classic Novels - Father Goriot
- English-French
- Narrated by: Bruce Pirie, Bernard, Aaron Blain
- Length: 20 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-08
- Language: English
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La Fille aux yeux d'or
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Graigolin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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Après Ferragus et La Duchesse de Langeais, La Fille aux yeux d'or clôt en 1834 la trilogie de l'Histoire des Treize, où Balzac invente...
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Exécrable narrateur!
- By Yzabelle Martineau on 2022-09-07
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La Fille aux yeux d'or
- Narrated by: Graigolin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-27
- Language: French
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Le Colonel Chabert
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Philippe Lebeau
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Hyacinthe Chabert, colonel de l'armée impériale de Napoléon Ier, a été déclaré mort lors de la bataille d'Eylau en 1807. Sa veuve Rose...
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Le Colonel Chabert
- Narrated by: Philippe Lebeau
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-06
- Language: French
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Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot, The Black Sheep & More
- Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Douglas Hodge, David Ross, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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This brilliant collection of France’s foremost nineteenth-century novelist and playwright delivers four of his most fascinating works - stories of love, rivalry, horror and adventure - all brought to life by a stellar cast included Stephen Fry and Alex Kingston....
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Honoré de Balzac: Pere Goriot, The Black Sheep & More
- Four BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Douglas Hodge, David Ross, Geoffrey Banks, Alex Kingston, Denys Hawthorne, Ronald Herdman, David Calder, Dorien Thomas, Geoffrey Whitehead, Thomas Arnold, Elizabeth Cassidy, Matthew Pidgeon, full cast
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-04-18
- Language: English
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Le Lys dans la vallée
- La Comédie humaine - Scènes de la vie de campagne
- Written by: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrated by: Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Félix de Vandenesse livre par écrit à sa fiancée les secrets de sa vie passée. Il est le cadet d'une famille aristocratique mais fut...
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Le Lys dans la vallée
- La Comédie humaine - Scènes de la vie de campagne
- Narrated by: Marie-Stéphane Cattaneo
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-20
- Language: French
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