Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 31 original MP3 tracks, 13:45:50 running time and a link to listen.
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 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 Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Ellen Marriage.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France, when the new bourgeoisie was jostling for position alongside the old aristocracy. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we met Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet who feels stymied by the pettiness of provincial life. In the present volume, Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves behind his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. He is tested by challenges that are literary, social, financial, and ethical.Balzac’s work was hugely influential in the development of realism in fiction. The Lost Illusions trilogy is one of his greatest achievements, and is named in the reference work 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. The final volume in the trilogy is Ève and David (1843). - Summary by Bruce Pirie
Recording facts
- Recording title: Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
- Author credits: Honoré de Balzac
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 31
- Listed recording duration: 13:45:50
Catalogue topics
- paris
- greed
- realism
- hypocrisy
- ambition
- bourgeoisie
- literary life
- 19th-century france
Opening tracks: first 24 of 31
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 20:19
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 34:49
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 26:57
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 27:03
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 25:47
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 31:30
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 28:14
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 28:45
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 23:53
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 30:38
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 28:05
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 25:15
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 28:15
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 28:30
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 23:27
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 30:12
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 22:59
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 28:42
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 31:44
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 25:29
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 24:13
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 24:53
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 17:48
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 30:31
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