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Honoré de Balzac
1799–1850
A giant of French fiction, he turned the crowded streets, salons, and back rooms of 19th-century France into vivid, gripping stories. His vast cycle of novels and tales, known as La Comédie humaine, helped shape the modern realist novel.
155 Audiobooks
Father Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Letters of Two Brides
by Honoré de Balzac
Sarrasine
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 02
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 01
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The Magic Skin
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The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
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Eugenie Grandet
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The Unknown Masterpiece
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes
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Colonel Chabert
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A Passion in the Desert
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The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions
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Droll Stories — Complete
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Cousin Betty
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The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 14 : Études philosophiques
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The Lily of the Valley
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Lost Illusions
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Catherine De Medici
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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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Seraphita
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Gobseck
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Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
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The Vicar of Tours
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La Grande Breteche
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Eugénie Grandet
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El Verdugo
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A Woman of Thirty
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Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants
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The Atheist's Mass
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Letters of Two Brides
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Cousin Pons
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The Elixir of Life
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 09. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 01
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The Thirteen
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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Adieu
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An Episode under the Terror
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The Ball at Sceaux
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Another Study of Woman
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Louis Lambert
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The Chouans
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Sons of the Soil
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The Two Brothers
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The Duchesse of Langeais
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 13 : Scènes de la vie militaire et Scènes de la vie de campagne
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 11. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 03
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 06. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 02
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A Daughter of Eve
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The Country Doctor
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 10. Scènes de la vie parisienne - Tome 02
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The Red Inn
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 04
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Gambara
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La pace domestica; L'elisir di lunga vita; La borsa: Racconti scelti
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The Napoleon of the People
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Study of a Woman
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Love in a Mask; Or, Imprudence and Happiness
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A Man of Business
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Ursula
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 12. Scènes de la vie parisienne et scènes de la vie politique
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Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846
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Beatrix
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 05. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 01
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The Deserted Woman
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 03
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The Lesser Bourgeoisie
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Die Frau von dreißig Jahren
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Two Poets
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The Collection of Antiquities
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The Firm of Nucingen
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The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories
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La Grenadiere
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Sarrasine
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Domestic Peace
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The Muse of the Department
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The Village Rector
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Albert Savarus
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 07. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 03
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Honoré de Balzac
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Eve and David
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Juana
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Melmoth Reconciled
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The Brotherhood of Consolation
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An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery)
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Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete
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Bureaucracy
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The Message
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Contes bruns
by Honoré de Balzac, Philarète Chasles, Charles Rabou
The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
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An Old Maid
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Facino Cane
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The Commission in Lunacy
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The Celibates
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Farewell
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Pierrette
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Modeste Mignon
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The Illustrious Gaudissart
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About the author
Born in Tours in 1799, Honoré de Balzac became one of the most influential novelists of the 19th century. After trying law and business, he committed himself to writing and produced an astonishing body of work about ambition, money, love, power, and social climbing in post-Revolutionary France.
His great achievement was La Comédie humaine, a large linked sequence of novels and stories featuring recurring characters across many books. That design gave his fiction an unusual sense of scale and continuity, and it let him explore French society from many angles, from aristocrats and bankers to artists, clerks, and criminals.
Balzac died in 1850, but his influence has lasted far beyond his own era. Readers still come to him for sharp observation, memorable characters, and a world that feels busy, human, and startlingly alive.