Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac audiobook.

Genre: drama

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a woman who resents her position as a 'poor relation.' As we follow her schemes to bring ruin upon the more privileged members of her family, we see a society in transition. The stability and idealism of the old order give way to a new bourgeois world in which virtue is strangled in the struggle for power and money. In this novel, Balzac searchingly probes the psychology and motivations of his characters: his work influenced the development of literary realism, as practised by writers such as Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Proust, and Henry James.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:09:53) Chapter 02

(00:35:46) Chapter 03

(01:03:26) Chapter 04

(01:30:36) Chapter 05

(01:56:41) Chapter 06

(02:25:08) Chapter 07

(02:49:13) Chapter 08

(03:16:51) Chapter 09

(03:38:52) Chapter 10

(04:00:58) Chapter 11

(04:19:01) Chapter 12

(04:41:32) Chapter 13

(05:07:55) Chapter 14

(05:35:41) Chapter 15

(06:00:38) Chapter 16

(06:17:48) Chapter 17

(06:39:05) Chapter 18

(06:59:35) Chapter 19

(07:25:30) Chapter 20

(07:50:12) Chapter 21

(08:23:58) Chapter 22

(08:55:10) Chapter 23

(09:20:39) Chapter 24

(09:47:52) Chapter 25

(10:15:00) Chapter 26

(10:34:14) Chapter 27

(11:03:16) Chapter 28

(11:35:11) Chapter 29

(12:10:00) Chapter 30

(12:39:16) Chapter 31

(13:19:35) Chapter 32

(13:52:58) Chapter 33

(14:37:01) Chapter 34

(15:05:23) Chapter 35

(15:29:53) Chapter 36

(16:00:32) Chapter 37

(16:28:46) Chapter 38

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