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Modeste Mignon

by Honoré de Balzac

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1844
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  1. 01 - Dedication and Chapter 1 - The Chalet

    20:40

  2. 02 - A Portrait from Life

    13:17

  3. 03 - Preliminaries

    19:34

  4. 04 - A Simple Story

    17:40

  5. 05 - The Problem Still Unsolved

    17:49

  6. 06 - A Maiden's First Romance

    21:54

  7. 07 - A Poet of the Angelic School

    27:40

  8. 08 - Blade to Blade

    21:33

  9. 09 - The Power of the Unseen

    17:24

  10. 10 - The Marriage of Souls

    24:06

  11. 11 - What Comes of Correspondence

    16:06

  12. 12 - A Declaration of Love, Set to Music

    22:34

  13. 13 - A Full-Length Portrait of Monsieur de la Briere

    25:10

  14. 14 - Matters Grown Complicated

    24:15

  15. 15 - A Father Steps in

    27:08

  16. 16 - Disenchanted

    11:32

  17. 17 - A Third Suitor

    21:51

  18. 18 - A Splendid First Appearance

    21:13

  19. 19 - Of which the Author Thinks a Good Deal

    23:56

  20. 20 - The Poet Does his Exercises

    20:56

  21. 21 - Modeste Plays her Part

    20:38

  22. 22 - A Riddle Guessed

    18:22

  23. 23 - Butscha Distinguishes himself

    16:29

  24. 24 - The Poet Feels that he is Loved too Well

    22:18

  25. 25 - A Diplomatic Letter

    15:41

  26. 26 - True Love

    14:58

  27. 27 - A Girl's Revenge

    15:11

  28. 28 - Modeste Behaves with Dignity

    15:26

  29. 29 - Conclusion

    13:24

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Bored by provincial life and hungry for a grand romance, young Modeste Mignon writes an anonymous letter to a celebrated Parisian poet she adores. What she does not know is that the poet, vain and busy, has handed the correspondence to his devoted secretary, who answers in his master's name and gradually falls in love with the unknown writer himself. Balzac spins the mix-up into a wry comedy about literary fame, feminine daydreams, and the gap between the idol and the honest man standing behind him. Beneath the wit runs a genuine tenderness for a spirited heroine slowly learning to tell true feeling from flattering illusion.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.

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First published
1844
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
227
Language
English
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