Eugénie Grandet: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eugénie Grandet, credited to Honoré de Balzac, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie 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. - Summary by Bruce Pirie

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eugénie Grandet
• Author credits: Honoré de Balzac
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 7:17:13

Catalogue topics

• tragedy
• France
• nineteenth century
• realism
• la comedie humaine
• avarice
• the human comedy

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 33:24
2. 02 - Part 2 — 38:13
3. 03 - Part 3 — 38:43
4. 04 - Part 4 — 43:00
5. 05 - Part 5 — 26:58
6. 06 - Part 6 — 29:14
7. 07 - Part 7 — 28:07
8. 08 - Part 8 — 34:51
9. 09 - Part 9 — 34:16
10. 10 - Part 10 — 28:52
11. 11 - Part 11 — 28:09
12. 12 - Part 12 — 26:38
13. 13 - Part 13 — 21:58
14. 14 - Part 14 — 24:49

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