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Nana
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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Nana Coupeau is a beautiful woman, able to attract men of enormous wealth with the crook of her finger. Part-time prostitute, part-time actress, she makes her debut in a mediocre operetta The Blonde Venus at the bustling Paris World’s Fair of 1867. She can’t sing, act, or dance, yet she is stunning. Nana soon rockets through elite Parisian society, and, blinded by desire, men crawl to her feet, yielding to her every demand. Affections are manipulated, hearts are broken; fortunes are gutted and inheritances squandered.
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Nana
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 21-05-2018
- Language: English
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Germinal
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
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Germinal is one of the most striking novels in the French tradition. Widely regarded as Zola's masterpiece, the novel describes the working conditions of French coalminers in the 1860s in harsh and realistic terms. It is visceral, graphic, and unrelenting. Its strong socialist principles and vivid accounts of the miners' strikes meant that the novel became a key symbol in the workers' fight against oppression, with chants of "Germinal! Germinal!" resonating high above the author's funeral.
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Germinal
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2015
- Language: English
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Thérèse Raquin
- By: Emile Zola
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Once upon a time, a teenaged Kate Winslet (The Reader, Titanic, Revolutionary Road) received a gift that would leave a lasting impression: a copy of Emile Zola’s classic Thérèse Raquin. Six Academy Award nominations and one Best Actress award later, she steps behind the microphone to perform this haunting classic of passion and disaster.
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Dark dark dark... but oh so good
- By LC on 21-06-2016
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Thérèse Raquin
- Narrated by: Kate Winslet
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-03-2012
- Language: English
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The Ladies' Paradise
- By: Emile Zola
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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Country girl Denise Baudu arrives in Paris hoping for a position in her uncle's clothing shop. However, her uncle's shop, along with other small shops in the area, is doing poorly. This is due to the large store across the street - The Ladies' Paradise - which is swallowing up the small specialty stores by offering 'one-stop shopping' at discounted prices. 19th Century Paris is experiencing the dawn of the department store. Despite her loyalty to her uncle, Denise is drawn to the progressive Ladies' Paradise and it's owner, the driven but charismatic Monsieur Mouret.
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-12-2013
- Language: English
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Nana
- By: Emile Zola
- Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
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Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honoré de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature. In novels such as Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Nana, sex and violence were examined with vivid clarity. These realists soon adopted the word naturalism to describe their writings.
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Nana
- Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 9
- Length: 18 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-03-2005
- Language: English
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Blood, Sex and Money
- A BBC Radio 4 Serialisation of Zola's Epic Saga
- By: Emile 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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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: 22-08-2019
- Language: English
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L'Assommoir
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Sarah Jalabert
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
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"Lorsque "L'Assommoir" a paru dans un journal, il a été attaqué avec une brutalité sans exemple, dénoncé, chargé de tous les crimes. Est-il bien nécessaire d'expliquer ici, en quelques lignes mes intentions d'écrivain ? J'ai voulu peindre la déchéance fatale d'une famille ouvrière, dans le milieu empesté de nos faubourgs. Au bout de l'ivrognerie et de la fainéantise, il y a relâchement des liens de la famille, les ordures de la promiscuité, l'oubli progressif des sentiments honnêtes, puis comme dénouement, la honte et la mort. C'est la morale en action, simplement."
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L'Assommoir
- Narrated by: Sarah Jalabert
- Length: 18 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 11-01-2019
- Language: French
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Therese Raquin (Classic Serial)
- By: Émile Zola, Diana Griffiths (dramatisation)
- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Two-part dramatisation by Diana Griffiths of the novel by Emile Zola, set in mid-19th century Paris. Therese is forced by her aunt to marry her sickly son, Camille. However, upon moving to Paris, she and her lover Laurent conspire to murder Camille so that they may love freely. Part 2: Therese and Laurent have murdered Camille and are free to marry. Their wedding night is not joyous - it is a night of terror, and each night is the same as they feel the ghost of Camille infiltrate their every thought and action.
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Therese Raquin (Classic Serial)
- Narrated by: Charlotte Riley, Full Cast
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2013
- Language: English
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L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- By: Emile 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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L'Assommoir [The Drinking Den]
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2019
- 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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L'Œuvre
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2017
- Language: French
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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.-
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Tradition vs modernity - with a dollop of romance
- By Dr on 01-06-2015
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Au bonheur des dames
- Rougon-Macquart 11
- Narrated by: Évelyne Lecucq
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-06-2013
- Language: French
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The Belly of Paris
- By: Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (translator)
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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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 he can’t have, and indignant at his world, which he now knows to be unjust. He finds that the city’s working classes have been displaced to make way for bigger streets and bourgeois living quarters, so he settles in with his brother’s family.
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The Belly of Paris
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 20-10-2012
- Language: English
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Nana
- Rougon-Macquart 9
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
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Dans ce roman, on découvre une société dominée par le plaisir et l'argent, le milieu du théâtre parisien au 19ème siècle et de la prostitution, celui de l'aristocratie et de la grande bourgeoisie.À travers le personnage de Nana, jolie fille du ruisseau, prostituée et comédienne sans talent devenue célèbre courtisane, Zola décrit la déchéance d'une femme, et celle de la bonne société qui lui apporte ses amants, mais aussi la fin du Second Empire, qui se rue avec insouciance vers la guerre et la débâcle.
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Nana
- Rougon-Macquart 9
- Narrated by: Victor Vestia
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 9
- Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 31-07-2015
- Language: French
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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 Masterpiece
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2020
- Language: English
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Pot-Bouille
- Rougon-Macquart 10
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Marc-Henri Boisse
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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Octave Mouret (le futur héros du "Bonheur des dames"), débarque à Paris et devient le nouveau locataire d'un immeuble bourgeois de six étages, situé rue de Choiseul. Il découvre rapidement que dans cette demeure en apparence de réputation irréprochable, les intrigues font partie de la vie courante des habitants. Derrière une belle façade se dissimule une cour intérieure d'où émanent des odeurs nauséabondes dues aux détritus des cuisines que les domestiques jettent par les fenêtres. Et par analogie, derrière cette respectable façade, existe un puant cloaque moral.
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Pot-Bouille
- Rougon-Macquart 10
- Narrated by: Marc-Henri Boisse
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 10
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2018
- Language: French
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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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Germinal
- Rougon-Macquart 13
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2018
- Language: French
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La bête humaine
- Rougon-Macquart 17
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Des batignolles à Auteuil, un mécanicien de locomotive erre, le couteau à la main, hanté par une idée fixe : tuer une femme... Dans le train qui mène au Havre, un couple poignarde sauvagement un notable du régime impérial, avant de le jeter sur la voie. À la Croix-de-Maufras, lieu dit reculé, un garde-barrière empoisonne son épouse, dans l'espoir de mettre enfin la main sur son magot.
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La bête humaine
- Rougon-Macquart 17
- Narrated by: Éric Herson-Macarel
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 17
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2016
- Language: French
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Germinal
- Penguin Classics
- By: Émile Zola, Roger Pearson - translator
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
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Considered by André Gide to be one of the 10 greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in Northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21-year-old mechanic, intelligent but with little education and a dangerous predisposition to murderous, alcoholic rage.
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Germinal
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Josh Dylan
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 23-04-2020
- Language: English
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The Kill (La Curee)
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Émile Zola's The Kill is one part of the French author's 20-volume series about the fictitious Rougon-Macquart family during the Second French Empire, and it is rich with symbolism. Paris is awakening to unprecedented expansion, the future intoxicating, and in keeping with its penchant for excess, the aristocracy is caught up in the mad dash to devour as much of it as it can.
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The Kill (La Curee)
- Narrated by: Cate Barratt
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 2
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-12-2016
- Language: English
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Money
- By: Émile Zola, Valerie Minogue (translator)
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
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Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable.
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Excellent book and well paced
- By Curious on 11-06-2019
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Money
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 18
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2014
- Language: English
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