Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Restoration-era Paris, where titles and money can open any door, young law student Eugene de Rastignac arrives with ambition and a thin purse and takes a room in the shabby Maison Vauquer boardinghouse. There he meets a gallery of strivers and castoffs, including the quiet, ridiculed old lodger known as Father Goriot, who seems to be sinking into poverty for reasons no one understands. As Eugene is drawn into the glittering salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain through distant family connections, he also encounters the mysterious, sharp-minded Vautrin, whose cynical lessons about power and survival tempt Eugene to trade principles for advancement. Between the boardinghouse's cramped dining room and the city's grand drawing rooms, Eugene watches alliances form and collapse, reputations bought and sold, and affection tested by social ambition. At the heart of it all lies Goriot's all-consuming love for his daughters, a devotion that exposes the costs of status, the cruelty of gossip, and the hunger that drives people to betray one another. Balzac's classic unspools as a portrait of Paris itself: seductive, pitiless, and impossible to resist.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:43:17) Chapter 02

(01:16:11) Chapter 03

(01:34:02) Chapter 04

(01:58:59) Chapter 05

(02:10:06) Chapter 06

(02:39:39) Chapter 07

(03:28:37) Chapter 08

(03:55:01) Chapter 09

(04:44:06) Chapter 10

(05:30:37) Chapter 11

(06:16:04) Chapter 12

(06:59:34) Chapter 13

(07:41:06) Chapter 14

(08:22:48) Chapter 15

(08:59:19) Chapter 16

(09:41:44) Chapter 17

(10:25:26) Chapter 18

(10:56:11) Chapter 19

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