Podcasts by Girl with the Golden Eyes, The by Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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 practises 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. (Summary by Martin Geeson)
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'De Marsay was driven to the house...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.696414
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'Paquita seemed to have been created for love...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.694765
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'De Marsay was driven to the house...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.692715
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'If it be impossible to paint the unheard-of delights...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.691420
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'For the next and succeeding day Henri disappeared...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.690407
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'At the hour mentioned Henri was...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.688725
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'When, after making an excellent meal...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.687294
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'De Marsay was not impulsive...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.683958
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'The young man who called himself...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.682858
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'Upon one of those fine spring mornings...' from 2021-03-04T00:03:31.681090
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