BALZAC, H. de: Cousin Bette (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Balzac, Honoré de, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Cousin Bette ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

During all these preparations - odd, to say the least... ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

'I, a widower five years since,' Crevel began... ( 13 min., 41 sec. )

Madame Hulot looked at Crevel with a hopeful... ( 12 min., 01 sec. )

From the first days of her married life to the present... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

Three years before the conversation reported above... ( 08 min., 08 sec. )

Lisbeth Fischer, though the daughter of the eldest... ( 14 min., 40 sec. )

At the time when this drama opens, if Cousin Bette... ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

Hortense, with an artfulness that would have... ( 11 min., 18 sec. )

Hulot, after a short silence, which was terrible to... ( 12 min., 27 sec. )

In 1823 the low rents in these already condemned... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

The ignorance in which the dwellers under one roof... ( 10 min., 05 sec. )

This was the incident that had given rise to... ( 10 min., 19 sec. )

So Rivet went off to see, on behalf of that poor... ( 12 min., 12 sec. )

On the day after, these three lives, so differently... ( 11 min., 03 sec. )

On the following morning, Hortense, who had slept... ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

The word cousin dazzled the artist's mind... ( 15 min., 48 sec. )

Mademoiselle Fischer's galley slave, obliged at last... ( 11 min., 48 sec. )

This state of things lasted for several days. ( 11 min., 17 sec. )

'You are as pale as death!' exclaimed Valérie. ( 11 min. )

Like a true Parisian Creole, Madame Marneffe... ( 13 min., 13 sec. )

Have you ever observed how in childhood... ( 07 min., 36 sec. )

At the Bourse, Crevel was regarded as a man... ( 13 min., 17 sec. )

By seven o'clock Lisbeth had returned home in an... ( 12 min., 55 sec. )

Hortense looked at her mother, but her head... ( 14 min., 06 sec. )

When the clerk was out of sight, Fischer called back... ( 13 min., 31 sec. )

Madame Marneffe particularly wished to be invited... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

In Paris, when a woman determines to make a... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

Within three months of settling in the Rue Vanneau... ( 12 min., 05 sec. )

This retrospective explanation, quite necessary after... ( 16 min., 11 sec. )

The residence Hulot had found for his wife... ( 09 min., 52 sec. )

The Marshal now came in; he had made such haste... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

While the whole family in concert tried to persuade... ( 09 min., 43 sec. )

'Did Madame Marneffe ever speak to you of this...' ( 09 min., 38 sec. )

The door bolted once more, the Brazilian came out... ( 13 min., 45 sec. )

Madame Marneffe now came in; she saw that... ( 10 min., 31 sec. )

'By Heaven! only a woman of the world is capable of...' ( 12 min., 11 sec. )

'If we had come to an agreement, like the simple...' ( 12 min., 09 sec. )

Hortense and Wenceslas had the ground floor... ( 16 min., 01 sec. )

Superficial thinkers - and there are many in the artist... ( 14 min., 55 sec. )

Valérie, informed the same evening of this success... ( 13 min., 45 sec. )

Many men desire to have two editions of the same... ( 15 min., 38 sec. )

Nothing annoys a married man so much as finding... ( 12 min., 55 sec. )

Madame Hulot, struck to the heart by the dreadful... ( 12 min., 32 sec. )

By the end of three weeks, Madame Marneffe... ( 15 min., 14 sec. )

When Wenceslas returned home and had read... ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

At eleven o'clock, when the evening was at its gayest... ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

At nine the next morning, the Baron... ( 09 min., 23 sec. )

For we all know the secret of our own wrong-doing... ( 06 min., 34 sec. )

In Paris each ministry is a little town by itself... ( 08 min., 33 sec. )

The Baron in his distress wrote the following note... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

During this relapse into virtue Baron Hulot... ( 09 min., 03 sec. )

Valérie shot a flash from her eye which would have... ( 09 min., 44 sec. )

Marriage, no doubt, must be accepted as a tie... ( 08 min., 48 sec. )

A terrible disaster overthrew the old maid... ( 07 min., 49 sec. )

She sat down at her desk and wrote as follows... ( 08 min., 27 sec. )

'What the devil can that worthy Baroness Hulot want...' ( 09 min., 20 sec. )

Fearing that Hortense might come in, she bolted... ( 11 min., 40 sec. )

The words made Madame Hulot shudder... ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

And at the Vava she tweaked his nose to the right... ( 10 min., 56 sec. )

Marshal Hulot, being obliged to live in a style suited... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

'You have robbed the State! You have made...' ( 14 min., 47 sec. )

'The office vacated by Baron Hulot is the object of...' ( 12 min., 29 sec. )

Notwithstanding Lisbeth's nursing, Marshal Hulot... ( 13 min., 12 sec. )

She made Hulot sit down in the splendid... ( 13 min., 12 sec. )

When Olympe Bijou was gone, Josépha looked... ( 12 min., 04 sec. )

Thus, about twenty months passed by, during which... ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

Hortense started in horror. 'Victorin will see...' ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

The words spoken by Lisbeth, 'He begs from his...' ( 11 min., 34 sec. )

Josépha rose, and foraging among the rare plants... ( 12 min., 37 sec. )

At the very time when Madame Hulot was calling... ( 12 min., 16 sec. )

By seven next morning Lisbeth had driven in a... ( 12 min., 21 sec. )

Twenty minutes after, Lisbeth and Crevel... ( 10 min., 28 sec. )

Lisbeth returned to dine in the Rue Louis-le-Grand... ( 06 min., 29 sec. )

Baron Montès de Montejanos was a social lion... ( 12 min., 49 sec. )

The Brazilian refilled his glass, bowed to Carabine... ( 12 min., 36 sec. )

At a wink from Madame Nourrisson, Cydalise cast... ( 12 min., 25 sec. )

The paradise let to Count Steinbock had been hung... ( 11 min., 22 sec. )

Towards the end of May, Baron Hulot's pension... ( 12 min., 11 sec. )

Célestine came back to beg her husband... ( 14 min., 19 sec. )

Among the many noble associations founded in Paris... ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

Atala, told by the stove-fitter's daughter that she was... ( 13 minutes, 56 sec. )

Adeline, left alone, and looking round the squalid... ( 13 minches, 26 sec. )

Participant:

Scott, Lucy, Reader -- Balzac, Honoré de, Author

Notes:

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Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781983188

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