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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. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Five features 14 essential works that reach across Europe, America, and Russia - from Twain to Dostoyevsky to Austen - to bring together some of the most influential authors of the 18th and 19th century. Read by a cast of incredible narrators, this is a chance to expand your listening by going deeper into some of your favourite authors' works and find your new favourite piece of classic literature.

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. From the bustling streets to the glittering ballrooms, some of the greatest novels of all time transport you to the heart of one of the world's most captivating cities. Featuring unforgettable characters, dramatic plots, and a deep dive into the human spirit, this collection showcases the best of Parisian storytelling.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thérèse is married off to her sickly cousin Camille and installed behind the counter of a dim haberdashery in a covered Paris arcade, where the days pass in silence broken only by the Thursday domino games. Then Camille brings home a friend from work...

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. 

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

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.

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.

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. From the gripping tale of social confinement in Little Dorrit to the dark exploration of ambition and desire in Nana, this volume covers a range of emotions and struggles. The Immortalist delves into fate and the choices that shape our lives, while Dead Souls brings wit and satirical brilliance to the human condition.

Émile Zola's The Fortune of the Rougons (1871), the opening title in the series of twenty novels dealing with the Rougon-Macquart dynasty, explores the origins of the family against the backdrop of the 1851 coup d'état. Major themes across the series have their catalyst here: ambition, greed and psychological flaws are shown to pass from one generation to the next as a result of heredity and social environment. Zola contrasts the cynical opportunism of the Rougons with the romantic idealism of his younger characters.

Sous le Second Empire, au cœur des Rougon-Macquart, Zola nous entraîne dans l’univers haletant des chemins de fer. Des logements étouffants d’employés aux profondeurs de la gare, tranchée béante du quartier de l’Europe où passent les trains de la Compagnie de l’Ouest, le fer bat la mesure des passions. Sous le fracas des locomotives, des vies se frôlent et s’enrayent; jalousie, désir et vertige de la vitesse font remonter la bête tapie en chacun.

Écrit au cœur des Rougon-Macquart, sous le Second Empire, L’Assommoir déploie, avec une rigueur implacable, la déchéance fatale d’une famille ouvrière, dans les faubourgs empestés. Au bout de l’ivrognerie et de la fainéantise, Zola montre les liens qui se relâchent, la promiscuité qui salit, une misère qui ronge.

Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat keinen Funken Talent. Doch das macht nichts, denn sie hat etwas anderes. Nana, das Kind aus der Gosse, Tochter einer Wäscherin, ausgestattet mit großen sinnlichen Reizen, steigt auf zur...

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...

Immerse yourself in the shadowy realms of desire, betrayal, and moral conflict that echo through the title "Therese Raquin." This podcast delves into the complexities of human relationships where passion intertwines with guilt, and ambition collides with consequence. Each episode features a new complete audiobook that explores the darker facets of love and the lengths to which individuals will go to fulfill their desires. These narratives invite listeners to confront the unsettling emotions and psychological turmoil that arise when personal ambition leads to dire repercussions. This is not a ...

À la suite de la mort de son épouse, Jean Macquart, désespéré, personnage principal de "La Terre", reprend du service dans l'armée. Incorporé dans le 106e de ligne, il y est caporal. Ses hommes le respectent. Lors de la guerre franco-prussienne de 1870, il ne peut qu'assister impuissant à l'effondrement de l'Empire et à la déroute de ses armées.

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 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.

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...