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La Terre
- [The Earth]
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
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Zola’s La Terre (The Earth) proved highly controversial on publication in 1887 and still retains the power to shock. It follows the fortunes of the Fouan family in the years leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. Old Fouan, the patriarch, draws up a legal contract to divide his farmland between his three children in exchange for an allowance that will support him and his wife through a comfortable retirement.
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AMAZING. Beautiful writing. Exquisite detail.
- By Tone on 24-02-23
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La Terre
- [The Earth]
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 15
- Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-09-22
- Language: English
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La fortune des Rougon
- Les Rougon-Macquart 1
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Eric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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"Je veux vous expliquer comment une famille, un petit groupe d'êtres, se comporte dans une société, en s'épanouissant pour donner naissance à dix, à vingt individus, qui paraissent, au premier coup d'oeil, profondément dissemblables, mais que l'analyse montre intimement liés les uns aux autres. L'hérédité a ses lois, comme la pesanteur." Emile Zola.
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Natra
- By Amelie Tedeschi on 05-06-23
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La fortune des Rougon
- Les Rougon-Macquart 1
- Narrated by: Eric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 04-12-20
- Language: French
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Au Bonheur des Dames
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames, 1883) plays out in a colossal and opulent Parisian department store of the same name. Its owner, Octave Mouret, builds his innovative, upmarket women’s fashion empire at the expense of the city’s smaller, traditional shops.
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Phenomenal social commentary. Not his best novel.
- By Tone on 18-07-23
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Au Bonheur des Dames
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-10-21
- Language: English
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Au bonheur des dames
- Rougon-Macquart 11
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Évelyne Lecucq
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Octave Mouret, précurseur inspiré, bouleverse sa corporation comme Haussmann bouleverse la ville. Il parie tout sur les femmes, sur leurs envies et sur leur incapacité à surmonter les tentations.
Une lui résiste : Denise, incarnation de la vertu et de la générosité. Elle devient une obsession pour cet ogre.-
Au bonheur des dames
- Rougon-Macquart 11
- Narrated by: Évelyne Lecucq
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-06-13
- Language: French
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Blood, Sex and Money
- A BBC Radio 4 Serialisation of Zola's Epic Saga
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Paul McGann, Alison Steadman, Samuel West, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
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First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included some of his greatest novels, among them his masterpiece, Germinal. These innovative, ambitious dramas, first broadcast on Radio 4 over 24 hours in 2015-16, are a radical reimagining of Zola’s classic series, introducing us to 104-year-old matriarch, Dide, imprisoned in an asylum in southern France.
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Glenda Jackson at her finest.
- By Pamela on 04-05-20
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Blood, Sex and Money
- A BBC Radio 4 Serialisation of Zola's Epic Saga
- Narrated by: Paul McGann, Alison Steadman, Samuel West, Anna Maxwell Martin, David Schofield, full cast, Emma Rigby, Angela Griffin, Robert Lindsay, Glenda Jackson, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Holliday Grainger, Fenella Woolgar, Georgina Campbell
- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 22-08-19
- Language: English
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The Masterpiece
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak, and raw portrait of unrecognized artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling painter who dreams of conquering the Paris art scene with his revolutionary "open air" style of painting. Discouraged and mocked, Claude retreats to the countryside with a young woman from Clermont, with whom he has fallen in love, before returning to Paris, where he continues to experience rejection at every turn.
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The obsessions of art told in poetic text.
- By Emma Jane Bridgeman on 04-09-22
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The Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 14
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-03-20
- Language: English
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L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
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After her lover abandons her and their two children, Gervaise marries a tin worker, Coupeau, who helps her rebuild her life. She starts her own business, and the two have a daughter, Anna (the protagonist of Zola's later novel Nana). But their happiness is short-lived as a freak accident leaves Coupeau seriously injured, beginning the family's fall into alcohol, desperation, and violence.
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 28-09-20
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L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 7
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-06-19
- Language: English
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Germinal
- Rougon-Macquart 13
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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Étienne Lantier, mécanicien au chômage, erre sur les routes du nord de la France. Au hasard d'une rencontre, frigorifié et mort de faim, il finit par trouver un emploi dans la mine du Voreux. Il découvre alors les conditions inhumaines du travail et la misère de la vie de mineur. Mais, les conditions économiques étant au plus bas, la Compagnie propriétaire du Voreux essaie de baisser encore leurs maigres salaires.
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Une histoire tragique et remarquable
- By Amazon Customer on 09-11-23
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Germinal
- Rougon-Macquart 13
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: French
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The Bright Side of Life
- By: Andrew Rothwell - translator, Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of 10, 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 that infects the family, especially Lazare, for whom she develops a devoted passion.
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Brilliant
- By Anonymous User on 04-03-23
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The Bright Side of Life
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 12
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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L'Œuvre
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
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Comme le confesse Émile Zola, critique d'art, ami d'enfance de Paul Cézanne, fervent défenseur de Manet, de Monet et des impressionnistes contre l'art académique,: " 'L'Œuvre' est un roman où mes souvenirs et mon cœur ont débordé". L'ouvrage suit une bande d'amis constituée autour d'un peintre et d'un écrivain. Ils fréquentent d'autres artistes, des sculpteurs, des architectes et des journalistes. L'auteur se met en scène dans le personnage de l'écrivain Pierre Sandoz, l'ami d'enfance de Claude Lantier, peintre génial mais maudit.
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Zola at his most poignant.
- By Mary Carnegie on 26-11-17
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L'Œuvre
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-06-17
- Language: French
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La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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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 account of brutal violence, greed, revenge, and repression.
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Dark story with great characters
- By Anonymous User on 03-07-22
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La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 17
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 13-03-21
- Language: English
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Thérèse Raquin
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Caroline Breton
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Le Figaro du 23 janvier 1868 à propos de Thérèse Raquin : "C'est le résidu de toutes les horreurs. Le sujet est simple, le remords physique de deux amants qui tuent le mari mais qui, ce mari tué, n'osent plus s'étreindre, car voici le supplice délicat qui les attend."
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Thérèse Raquin
- Narrated by: Caroline Breton
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: French
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Thérèse Raquin
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Thérèse is a half Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly cousin Camille. His ambition takes the three of them to Paris, where they set up home in the dank and dingy backstreets that run down to the Seine. The relentless tedium of life for Thérèse is eventually broken by the presence of Camille’s unscrupulous friend Laurent, sparking a series of increasingly desperate acts.
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Thérèse Raquin
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 16-03-22
- Language: English
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The Ladies' Delight (Classic Serial)
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: David Hargreaves
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
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By Emile Zola. Dramatised by Carine Adler. Business, ambition and fashion all collide in Zola's colourful love story. Set in the hustle and excitement of the expansion of one of Paris' first department stores. Episode 1: When innocent provincial girl Denise arrives in Paris, she quickly catches the eye of the notorious seducer of women, Octave Mouret. Despite her uncle's disapproval, Denise accepts a job at Mouret's ever expanding department store The Ladies' Delight.
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Not as expected
- By Helen on 05-12-13
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The Ladies' Delight (Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: David Hargreaves
- Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
- Release date: 31-05-13
- Language: English
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Nana
- By: Emile Zola
- Narrated by: Hélène Lausseur
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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"Le sujet de Nana est celui-ci : Toute une société se ruant sur le cul. Une meute derrière une chienne, qui n'est pas en chaleur et qui se moque des chiens qui la suivent. Le poème des désirs du mâle, le grand levier qui remue le monde". Émile Zola.
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Nana
- Narrated by: Hélène Lausseur
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-05-22
- Language: French
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Therese Raquin
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Emile Zola applies his keen eye to the human condition in this masterpiece plagued by passions, guilt, and the ghosts that haunt our psyche. Often perceived as a play of temperaments, Zola tells the story of Therese’s unhappy marriage to Camille and her subsequent affair with one of her husband’s friends, Laurent. With his dark symbolism often reaching claustrophobic depths, we become more acquainted with what drives our most animalistic instincts.
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Therese Raquin
- Narrated by: Andrea Giordani
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 20-12-18
- Language: English
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The Gin Palace
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband's drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise's plans begin to unravel tragically.
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dreadful narrator
- By Ruth on 07-10-12
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The Gin Palace
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 7
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 07-12-06
- Language: English
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Germinal
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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A father and three of his seven children work brutal hours in a mine, facing hazards such as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their lodger, Étienne, shares ideas about a workers' revolt, the family gradually embraces his plans. Soon the settlement is aflame with resolve to strike for better wages and working conditions. Savage and horrifying events ensue as miners clash with management and with each other.
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Narrator spoils it
- By Alan on 10-11-09
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Germinal
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 02-11-06
- Language: English
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Nana
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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"Mir ist erzählt worden", ergriff Faloise wieder das Wort, "daß Nana eine herrliche Stimme haben soll." "Die!?" rief der Direktor achselzuckend. "Die reinste Krähe! Nana hat andere Dinge, ei Donnerwetter! Ich hab' sie aufgestöbert, und das, was ich meine, ist ganz famos bei ihr vertreten, oder meine alte Spürnase ist nicht mehr wert als die des dümmsten Einfaltspinsels...
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Nana
- Narrated by: Oliver Rohrbeck
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 05-09-13
- Language: German
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Lourdes
- By: Emile Zola
- Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
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Il volume è il risultato di due viaggi che lo scrittore compì a Lourdes nel 1891-92, dove annotò tutto ciò che vedeva. Il resoconto della descrizione puntuale dei malati, dei luoghi, alternati alla storia del luogo insieme allo sfruttamento economico della fede dei pellegrini si unisce alla lotta interiore del protagonista, Pietro, diventato sacerdote senza convinzione, che vorrebbe credere ma resta tormentato dai dubbi. Inevitabile pensare che il suo conflitto interiore sia stato lo stesso dell'autore.
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Lourdes
- Narrated by: Silvia Cecchini
- Length: 18 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 11-01-22
- Language: Italian
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