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Author(s): Balzac, Honoré de
Reader(s): Homewood, Bill
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0326
Barcode: 9781781981689
Release Date: 10/2018
BALZAC, H. de: Father Goriot (Unabridged)
Impoverished young aristocrat Eugène de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society. While staying at the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris’s rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève, he encounters Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who has spent his entire fortune supporting his two daughters. The boarders strike up a friendship and Goriot learns of Rastignac’s feelings for his daughter Delphine. He begins to see Rastignac as the ideal son-in-law, and the perfect substitute for Delphine’s domineering husband. But Rastignac has other opportunities too, as the notorious criminal Vautrin, ‘The Death Dodger’, offers to murder the brother of a wealthy woman, giving the ambitious young lawyer a clear path to her fortune… Profound and realistic, Father Goriot is a startling glimpse into the vanity and selfishness of 19th-century Paris. It is considered one of the finest works of Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine.
Tracklist
Disc 1
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|  | 1 | Father Goriot | 12:17 |
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| | 2 | The first room exhales an odour for which… | 13:27 |
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| | 3 | Mlle Michonneau, that elderly young lady… | 13:03 |
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| | 4 | Mlle Taillefer felt attracted, perhaps unconsciously… | 11:19 |
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| | 5 | For three months from that day Mme Veuve… | 11:59 |
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| | 6 | Unluckily, towards the end of the second year… | 10:45 |
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Disc 2
| | 1 | One evening after dinner Mme Vauquer said… | 10:41 |
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| | 2 | It so happened that Christophe took a look… | 10:42 |
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| | 3 | The next morning Paris was wrapped… | 10:42 |
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| | 4 | When everything was ready… | 14:59 |
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| | 5 | At four o'clock that evening… | 10:57 |
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| | 6 | The next day Rastignac dressed himself… | 15:32 |
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Disc 3
| | 1 | She rose to her feet and signed to Maxime… | 10:56 |
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| | 2 | The innumerable thoughts that surged through… | 12:42 |
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| | 3 | Eugène was beginning to feel very uncomfortable… | 10:00 |
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| | 4 | Mme de Beauséant began to laugh outright… | 11:41 |
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| | 5 | She raised her head like the great lady… | 14:03 |
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| | 6 | He rose without waiting for Goriot's answer… | 13:42 |
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Disc 4
| | 1 | After seven years of unclouded happiness… | 10:16 |
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| | 2 | By the time Eugène had finished the letter… | 13:46 |
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| | 3 | An idea, of course, gains in force by the energy… | 13:47 |
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| | 4 | He stopped for a moment and looked at Eugène. | 12:12 |
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| | 5 | 'Well, then, if you mean to make a fortune…' | 12:57 |
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| | 6 | 'How frightful!' said Eugène. | 10:54 |
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Disc 5
| | 1 | 'How could you think that Mme de Restaud…' | 12:37 |
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| | 2 | A few moments later he was sitting beside… | 13:00 |
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| | 3 | Rastignac did not leave Mme de Nucingen… | 15:28 |
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| | 4 | Ever after this conference… | 11:41 |
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| | 5 | Eugène lingered over his toilette… | 10:45 |
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| | 6 | Eugène took the dainty little purse… | 10:32 |
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Disc 6
| | 1 | Eugène's maiden conscience resisted… | 09:04 |
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| | 2 | The next day Rastignac went at the appointed… | 12:57 |
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| | 3 | Mme de Nucingen might love him… | 07:40 |
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| | 4 | Mme Vauquer followed the two ladies… | 09:21 |
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| | 5 | For some days the Countess had paid more… | 12:50 |
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| | 6 | 'But none of all this explains why…' | 10:12 |
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| | 7 | Victorine fled. Her heart was more full… | 10:46 |
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Disc 7
| | 1 | Eugène stared at his neighbour… | 12:23 |
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| | 2 | Eugène heard all this, and could not answer… | 14:50 |
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| | 3 | That evening's merry-making… | 12:26 |
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| | 4 | Father Goriot caught the student's hand… | 09:23 |
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| | 5 | Rastignac's battle with himself… | 14:12 |
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| | 6 | But before the chief had time to answer… | 09:35 |
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Disc 8
| | 1 | A messenger came in at that moment… | 11:01 |
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| | 2 | 'Have we guessed your wishes rightly?' | 12:17 |
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| | 3 | It was midnight. Mme de Nucingen's carriage… | 09:38 |
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| | 4 | Love in Paris is a thing distinct and apart… | 09:45 |
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| | 5 | Next day, Goriot and Rastignac were ready… | 10:18 |
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| | 6 | 'Oh! Father dear, be careful how you set about it!' | 10:50 |
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| | 7 | Anastasie bowed her head… | 07:15 |
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Disc 9
| | 1 | 'That is not all, father,' said Anastasie… | 10:18 |
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| | 2 | The Countess stood motionless and speechless… | 10:14 |
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| | 3 | That evening at the opera… | 09:54 |
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| | 4 | 'How they will enjoy themselves tomorrow,'… | 11:40 |
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| | 5 | He went to his rooms and dressed… | 09:09 |
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| | 6 | Rastignac went. He asked for the Marquis… | 10:37 |
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| | 7 | At two o'clock in the afternoon… | 10:15 |
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Disc 10
| | 1 | 'They will come before long…' | 11:27 |
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| | 2 | 'The next day I went to Delphine for comfort…' | 12:35 |
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| | 3 | 'Christophe!' shouted Eugène… | 11:36 |
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| | 4 | Eugène bowed to the husband and wife… | 12:35 |
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| | 5 | There was something awful and appalling… | 16:01 |
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Total Playing Time: 12:00:26