The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honore de Balzac audiobook.

Genre: drama

In Restoration Paris, where wealth and reputation can be traded as easily as gossip, the worldly dandy Henri de Marsay lives for conquest and control. But a single glimpse of a young woman with striking, golden eyes jolts him out of his practiced indifference. Determined to learn her name and claim her attention, de Marsay follows the faint trail of clues into a shadowed corner of the city, a place of barred windows, whispered appointments, and servants who seem trained to reveal nothing. The woman, Paquita Valdes, is kept behind layers of secrecy, and every step closer to her draws de Marsay deeper into a private world ruled by jealousy and fear. As desire turns into fixation, he must navigate coded messages, clandestine meetings, and the unsettling sense that he is not the only one watching. Balzac builds a feverish portrait of obsession, erotic power, and social theater, exposing how privilege can disguise cruelty and how longing can become a trap, for pursuer and pursued alike.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(01:00:32) Chapter 02

(01:30:18) Chapter 03

(01:48:08) Chapter 04

(02:10:14) Chapter 05

(02:29:54) Chapter 06

(03:00:17) Chapter 07

(03:21:57) Chapter 08

(03:39:22) Chapter 09

(03:58:39) Chapter 10

(04:14:58) Chapter 11

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