Lost Illusions: Ève and David: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Lost Illusions: Ève and David by Honoré de Balzac: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 20 original MP3 tracks, 8:20:16 running time and a link to listen.
Lost Illusions: Ève and David, credited to Honoré de Balzac, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Lost Illusions: Ève and David by Honoré de Balzac. (Translated by Ellen Marriage.) Read in English by Bruce Pirie Ève and David (1843) is the final 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. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets, 1837), we meet Lucien Chardon, an aspiring poet frustrated by the pettiness of provincial life. In the second volume (A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, 1839) Lucien, now using the more aristocratic-sounding surname "de Rubempré," leaves his family in order to seek fame and fortune in the literary world of Paris. By the end of that book, he faced imminent emotional and financial collapse. In this present volume, the reader is returned to the provincial town of Angoulême, where Lucien's sister Ève and her husband, Lucien's friend David, have been desperately struggling against clever competition to keep a their printing shop afloat. Their situation is complicated when Lucien's financial distress spills over into their lives. 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. (Summary by Bruce Pirie) Other volumes in this series: Lost Illusions: Two Poets Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Recording facts
- Recording title: Lost Illusions: Ève and David
- Author credits: Honoré de Balzac
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 20
- Listed recording duration: 8:20:16
Catalogue topics
- greed
- realism
- hypocrisy
- ambition
- provincial france
- printing industry
- 19th-century france
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 27:05
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 22:17
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 21:46
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 32:40
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 21:46
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 34:46
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 21:55
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 35:38
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 30:34
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 27:12
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 26:23
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 18:47
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 30:29
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 10:17
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 25:15
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 35:04
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 13:05
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 26:55
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 22:03
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 16:18
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