Émile Zola

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The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English.

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....

The Essential Classics: Volume 9 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Emma Gregory, Ben Allen, George Blagden, and Peter Noble.

An enchanting collection of some of the greatest short stories ever written by notable French authors....

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the shadow of duty, desire blooms—and innocence becomes obsession. Hélène Grandjean has devoted herself entirely to two things: her irreproachable virtue and her fragile daughter Jeanne. A young widow living in respectable isolation in 1850s...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Gervaise Macquart arrive à Paris avec deux enfants et un amant qui l'abandonne au bout de quelques semaines. Blanchisseuse, boiteuse, courageuse, elle ne demande pas grand-chose : travailler, manger tous les jours, mourir dans son lit. Elle épouse...

Émile Zola’nın çarpıcı eseri Meyhane, yoksulluk, alkolizm ve toplumsal çöküşün insan hayatını nasıl etkilediğini gözler önüne serer. Naturalizmin en güçlü örneklerinden biri olan bu roman, sert ve gerçekçi anlatımıyla dikkat çeker.

Nana, Paris’in göz kamaştırıcı ama çürümüş dünyasında yükselen bir kadının hikâyesini anlatır. Zola, bireysel hırsların ve toplumsal yozlaşmanın iç içe geçtiği bu romanda çarpıcı bir portre sunar.

When Étienne Lantier arrives in the town of Montsou in search of work, he is confronted by the brutal conditions endured by the coal miners: gruelling shifts, meagre wages and backbreaking labour.

Glenda Jackson stars in this award-winning BBC Radio series, inspired by literature's greatest ever whistleblower, Émile Zola, and his epic saga of the Rougon-Macquart family First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the...

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...

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....

Brought to you by Penguin. Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten 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...

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 at the bustling Paris World’s Fair of 1867....

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Paradise is not lost. It is forbidden. Serge Mouret is the perfect priest—pious, devoted, consumed by a mystical love for God that leaves no room for earthly desire. In the blighted village of Artaud, he ministers to his impoverished flock while...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the glittering, corrupt halls of Napoleon III's Second Empire, power is the only currency that matters—and Eugène Rougon knows how to spend it. A colossus of political cunning, Rougon rises to become Minister of the Interior, wielding patronage...

L'Oeuvre, a novel by Emile Zola first published in 1886 as part of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, explores artistic ambition, friendship, love, and the obsession with creating the perfect work. Through Claude Lantier and the Parisian art world of the nineteenth century, this French classic immerses...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. After twenty novels and three generations, one man holds all the secrets. Dr. Pascal Rougon has spent his life documenting his family's history—three generations of the Rougon-Macquart clan, their triumphs and tragedies, their inherited madness and...