Modeste Mignon: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Modeste Mignon, 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 Modeste Mignon, by Honoré de Balzac. Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de Canalis. However, he is not moved by her attentions. He invites his secretary Ernest de la Brière to "deal with the matter". Ernest answers Modeste's letters in his name and acts as her lover, disguised as Canalis. The scene changes dramatically when Ernest discoveres that Modest is, in fact, a rich heiress. Would he be able to win her heart despite his lie? (Summary by Wikipedia, revised by Stav Nisser.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Modeste Mignon
• Author credits: Honoré de Balzac
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 9:28:45

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 01 - Dedication and Chapter 1 - The Chalet — 20:40
2. 02 - A Portrait from Life — 13:18
3. 03 - Preliminaries — 19:34
4. 04 - A Simple Story — 17:41
5. 05 - The Problem Still Unsolved — 17:49
6. 06 - A Maiden's First Romance — 21:54
7. 07 - A Poet of the Angelic School — 27:40
8. 08 - Blade to Blade — 21:33
9. 09 - The Power of the Unseen — 17:24
10. 10 - The Marriage of Souls — 24:06
11. 11 - What Comes of Correspondence — 16:07
12. 12 - A Declaration of Love, Set to Music — 22:34
13. 13 - A Full-Length Portrait of Monsieur de la Briere — 25:10
14. 14 - Matters Grown Complicated — 24:16
15. 15 - A Father Steps in — 27:08
16. 16 - Disenchanted — 11:32
17. 17 - A Third Suitor — 21:51
18. 18 - A Splendid First Appearance — 21:13
19. 19 - Of which the Author Thinks a Good Deal — 23:56
20. 20 - The Poet Does his Exercises — 20:57
21. 21 - Modeste Plays her Part — 20:38
22. 22 - A Riddle Guessed — 18:22
23. 23 - Butscha Distinguishes himself — 16:29
24. 24 - The Poet Feels that he is Loved too Well — 22:19

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