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Honoré de Balzac
1799–1850
A towering figure of 19th-century French literature, he transformed the novel into a vivid portrait of society, ambition, money, and desire. His interconnected fiction, later gathered as La Comédie humaine, remains one of the great literary panoramas of modern life.
158 Audiobooks
Juana
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The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2
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The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories
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A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Bureaucracy
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The Two Brothers
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The Red Inn
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The Vicar of Tours
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The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1
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Kahden nuoren aviovaimon muistelmat
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La Grande Breteche
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A Daughter of Eve
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 08. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 04
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The Illustrious Gaudissart
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Pamela Giraud: A Play in Five Acts
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The Physiology of Marriage, Complete
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 01
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Droll Stories — Volume 1
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The Jealousies of a Country Town
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The Physiology of Marriage, Part 3
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The Brotherhood of Consolation
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The Hated Son
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A Drama on the Seashore
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Honoré de Balzac
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The Deputy of Arcis
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The Collection of Antiquities
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Vendetta
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A Second Home
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Domestic Peace
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The Message
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The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts
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The Muse of the Department
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Honorine
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La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote
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La pace domestica; L'elisir di lunga vita; La borsa: Racconti scelti
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Die Frau von dreißig Jahren
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Massimilla Doni
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 05. Scènes de la vie de Province - Tome 01
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Kapina
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The Alkahest
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Paz (La Fausse Maitresse)
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Maitre Cornelius
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The Purse
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Unconscious Comedians
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Pierre Grassou
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Z. Marcas
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A Start in Life
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The Exiles
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A Prince of Bohemia
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The Recruit
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Madame Firmiani
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Christ in Flanders
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Naamioitua rakkautta
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 18 : Scènes de la vie parisienne – Scènes de la vie politique – Scènes de la vie de campagne – Études analytiques
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Théâtre
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 17. Études de mœurs : La cousine Bette; Le cousin Pons
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La Comédie humaine - Volume 16. Études philosophiques et Études analytiques
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Another study of woman
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About the author
Born in Tours on May 20, 1799, and based for much of his working life in Paris, Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. He pursued literature with extraordinary energy, producing novels, stories, and essays that explored the pressures of social class, family, love, ambition, and financial power.
Balzac is best known for La Comédie humaine, an ambitious series of interconnected works populated by recurring characters and set across different levels of French society. Among his celebrated novels are Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Cousin Bette, and Lost Illusions.
His detailed realism and interest in everyday social life helped shape the modern novel. Balzac died in Paris on August 18, 1850, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest French novelists of all time.