Length21h 32m
About this audiobook
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles. It eventually settled into the four sections found in the present edition. At the end of that book, Lucien de Rubempré (born Lucien Chardon), a young provincial poet with great ambitions but feeble moral will, was heading for Paris in the company of a mysterious Spanish priest. In the present book, we quickly discover that the "Spanish priest" is actually Jacques Collin, alias "Vautrin," a master criminal first introduced to readers in Balzac's Father Goriot (1835). Lucien develops a relationship with Esther van Gobseck, a prostitute (the "courtesan" of the title). With these three main figures — Lucien, Vautrin, and Esther — Balzac explores the corruption of the aristocracy, the world of prostitution, the courts, and the prisons of 19th-century Paris. With masterful depictions of society and individual psychology, Balzac is considered a father of realism in fiction.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length21 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 1)
6ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 6)
2ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 2)
7ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 7)
3ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 3)
8ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 8)
4ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 4)
9ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 9)
5ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE (pt. 5)
