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.

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...

The Paris Classics Collection: Stories of the City immerses you in the rich, timeless world of Paris through a collection of iconic stories that span the spectrum of passion, revolution, romance, and intrigue.

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....

Zola'nın kaleminden ölümün peşine düşen, acıyla, sevgiyle, umutsuzlukla ve insanlık haliyle iç içe geçen bu benzersiz eserde, ölümün evrenselliğini ve farklı yaşam kesitlerinde nasıl karşımıza çıktığını keşfedeceksiniz. "Nasıl Ölünür", hayatın son anlarına dair...

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.

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.

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....

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...

BBC radio adaptations of novels and short stories by Émile Zola, plus a fascinating short documentary and an original drama Novelist, journalist and literature’s greatest whistleblower, Émile Zola was one of the 19th century’s pre-eminent authors. He is renowned for his philosophy of...

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. 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...

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.

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...

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...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She gave everything. They took it all. And still she found reasons to live. At ten years old, Pauline Quenu loses her parents and is sent to live with distant relatives in a small seaside village. The Chanteaus welcome her warmly—and immediately begin...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the shadow of the cathedral, a girl dreams of miracles. On a winter night, a nine-year-old orphan collapses at the cathedral door—abandoned, freezing, filled with rage at a world that has shown her only cruelty. Hubert and Hubertine, childless...