The Girl with the Golden Eyes Honoré de Balzac Human Comedy Audiobook in 4 CDs

Description: These CDs will play in any CD player at home or in your car. The Girl with the Golden Eyes Honoré de Balzac(1799 - 1850) Translated by Ellen Marriage(1865 - 1946) Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante - but perhaps keeps the reader waiting too long for the first act of his operatic extravaganza. Our beautiful, androgynous hero, Henri de Marsay, is one of the bastard offspring of a depraved Regency milord and himself practices the cynical arts of the libertine. His quarry is the exotic Paquita Valdes, she of the golden eyes. But there is a mysterious third person in this liaison... The shocking truth of their interrelationships marks this out at once as one of those French novels that Lady Bracknell would instantly ban from the house. Read by Martin Geeson Run Time 4 Hours 39 Minutes in 4 Audio CDs Chapter Titles: Preamble Paris 'Upon one of those fine spring mornings...' 'The young man who called himself...' 'De Marsay was not impulsive...' 'When, after making an excellent meal...' 'At the hour mentioned Henri was...' 'For the next and succeeding day Henri disappeared...' 'If it be impossible to paint the unheardof delights...' 'At breakfast, by the time he had started...' 'Paquita seemed to have been created for love...' 'De Marsay was driven to the house...' Our Audiobooks are Complete and Unabridged (unless otherwise indicated)Our Audiobooks are always read by real people, never by computers.Please Note: These recorded readings are from the author's original works which are in the public domain. All recordings and artwork are in the public domain and there are no infringements or copyrights. Each track starts with "This is a LibriVox recording...."Although Librivox has graciously made these recordings available to the public domain, they are not associated with the sale of this product. Public Domain Books A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired or have been forfeited. In most countries the of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest copyright term is in Mexico, which has life plus 100 years for all deaths since July 1928. A notable exception is the United States, where every book and tale published before 1926 is in the public domain; American copyrights last for 95 years for books originally published between 1925 and 1978 if the copyright was properly registered and maintained.

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