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The Rougon-Macquart Cycle Audiobook Series

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    The Gin Palace

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - The Rougon-Macquart Cycle

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    The Gin Palace is the seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, which follows two branches of a French family through several generations. It is also the work that made his reputation, introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature.Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. ... Read more

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    The Belly of Paris

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Rougon-Macquart Cycle

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zola’s best novels. Set in the newly built food markets of Paris, it is a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce.Having just escaped from prison after being wrongfully accused, young Florent arrives at Paris’ food market, Les Halles, half starved, surrounded by all ... Read more

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    Germinal

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...
    Series Audiobook 13 - The Rougon-Macquart Cycle

    Unabridged

    17 hours 37 min

    With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Germinal chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and deprivation of life in the coal fields of nineteenth-century France.A father and three of seven children work brutal hours, facing such hazards as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their lodger, Étienne, shares ideas of a workers' revolt, the family ... Read more

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    La Bête Humaine

    by Émile Zola, Leighton Pugh ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris to Le Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking ... Read more

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    Fortune of the Rougons, The

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Eloise Fairfax ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    We enter the world of a fictional town of Plassans in Zola's native region of Provence and we are introduced to the eccentric heroine Adelaide Fouque, later known as Tante Dide, who becomes the common ancestor for both the Rougon and Macquart families. Her legitimate son from her short marriage to her late husband, a labourer named Rougon who worked on Dide's land, is forced to grow up alongside ... Read more

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    Money

    by Émile Zola, Leighton Pugh ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 2 min

    Zola’s Money (L’Argent, 1891) shows the corrupting effect of untrammelled stock-market speculation. While some seek redemption through philanthropic and evangelical ventures, others such as the main protagonist, Saccard embrace their own avarice. Speculators illegally push up share prices so that ordinary citizens are feverishly swept up in an epidemic of small-scale investment. After ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Masterpiece

    by Émile Zola ...
    Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 31 min

    Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering Paris’s art scene with his revolutionary ‘open air’ style of painting. Discouraged and mocked, Claude retreats to the countryside with a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    The Bright Side of Life

    by Emile Zola ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Jasicki ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 24 min

    Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who can ease Chanteau's gout-ridden agony. Her love of life contrasts with the insularity and pessimism ... Read more

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