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The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac
"Give me a feast such as men give when they love," she said, "and whilst I sleep, slay me..."Listeners who like to plunge straight into a story would do well to skip the lengthy preamble. Here, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a version of the Inferno of Dante - but perhaps keeps the reader waiting too long for the first act of his operatic extravaganza. Our beautiful, androgynous hero, Henri de Marsay, is one of the bastard offspring of a depraved Regency milord and himself practises the cynical arts of the libertine. His quarry is the exotic Paquita Vald...
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Episodes
01 - Preamble: Paris 02.01.2026 0:32
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02 - 'Upon one of those fine spring mornings...' 01.01.2026 29:46
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03 - 'The young man who called himself...' 31.12.2025 17:50
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04 - 'De Marsay was not impulsive...' 30.12.2025 22:06
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05 - 'When, after making an excellent meal...' 29.12.2025 19:39
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06 - 'At the hour mentioned Henri was...' 28.12.2025 30:23
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07 - 'For the next and succeeding day Henri disappeared...' 27.12.2025 21:39
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08 - 'If it be impossible to paint the unheard-of delights...' 26.12.2025 17:25
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09 - 'At breakfast, by the time he had started...' 25.12.2025 19:16
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10 - 'Paquita seemed to have been created for love...' 24.12.2025 16:18
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11 - 'De Marsay was driven to the house...' 23.12.2025 15:46
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