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• A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

  A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the quiet parlors and rain-slick streets of late 19th-century Paris, A Love Episode offers an intense, intimate study of yearning, loneliness, and the gentle violence of unspoken desire. Émile Zola strips away melodrama to render a single, fragile heart — a widow balancing maternal duty and a stirring for something more — with painstaking realism and compassionate clarity. As part of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, this short, elegiac novel concentrates on small domestic gestures, whispered confidences, and the social pressures that hem in private longing; Zola’s eye for detail turns ordinary rooms, children’s toys, and rainy afternoons into a landscape of emotion. The audiobook brings this quietly urgent story to life with a voice that honours Zola’s precise prose: every hesitation, every stolen glance, and every swell of hope or despair is magnified, making the listener feel the slow, inexorable pull of love and the fragile boundaries that separate consolation from ruin. For listeners who savor psychological subtlety, moral complexity, and the vivid atmosphere of classic French realism, A Love Episode is a compact, devastating masterpiece that lingers long after the last sentence. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:07:30) Chapter 01 (00:34:19) Chapter 02 (01:01:41) Chapter 03 (01:33:33) Chapter 04 (02:03:42) Chapter 05 (02:32:51) Chapter 06 (03:04:44) Chapter 07 (03:33:56) Chapter 08 (04:01:49) Chapter 09 (04:37:05) Chapter 10 (05:06:33) Chapter 11 (05:45:55) Chapter 12 (06:20:24) Chapter 13 (06:52:22) Chapter 14 (07:26:12) Chapter 15 (07:56:04) Chapter 16 (08:28:38) Chapter 17 (09:03:29) Chapter 18 (09:37:55) Chapter 19 (09:58:08) Chapter 20 (10:31:05) Chapter 21 (11:02:30) Chapter 22 (11:38:14) Chapter 23 (12:15:42) Chapter 24 (12:50:06) Chapter 25 (13:19:51) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• LAssommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

  LAssommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Émile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, is a visceral, unflinching portrait of hope and ruin among the working poor of 19th-century Paris — a novel that crackles with the sounds, smells and small mercies of everyday life even as it traces a slow, inexorable descent. Follow Gervaise, a laundress whose fierce ambition to build a respectable life and a thriving business meets the grinding forces of poverty, fate and human weakness; Zola’s keen ear for gossip, his painterly eye for cramped rooms and factory yards, and his unsparing sympathy bring every character to vivid life. This audiobook invites you into the clatter of washhouses, the rattle of carts and the hush of dimly lit rooms where love, jealousy and drink determine futures. Naturalist and social critic, Zola exposes how environment and heredity conspire to crush individual striving, yet his prose remains intimate and humane — at once tender to its characters and ruthless in its realism. For listeners who crave emotional intensity, historical texture, and a masterful study of character and society, L'Assommoir offers a powerful, immersive experience that lingers long after the last page. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:43) Chapter 02 (00:41:40) Chapter 03 (01:13:46) Chapter 04 (01:38:39) Chapter 05 (01:55:29) Chapter 06 (02:25:52) Chapter 07 (02:52:57) Chapter 08 (03:18:52) Chapter 09 (03:48:05) Chapter 10 (04:14:11) Chapter 11 (04:38:35) Chapter 12 (05:03:59) Chapter 13 (05:32:47) Chapter 14 (05:54:47) Chapter 15 (06:26:11) Chapter 16 (06:51:47) Chapter 17 (07:13:56) Chapter 18 (07:41:24) Chapter 19 (08:07:14) Chapter 20 (08:30:59) Chapter 21 (08:52:25) Chapter 22 (09:15:19) Chapter 23 (09:38:44) Chapter 24 (09:56:00) Chapter 25 (10:12:31) Chapter 26 (10:41:32) Chapter 27 (11:06:56) Chapter 28 (11:26:29) Chapter 29 (11:43:09) Chapter 30 (12:11:27) Chapter 31 (12:36:50) Chapter 32 (12:54:42) Chapter 33 (13:36:51) Chapter 34 (14:01:34) Chapter 35 (14:33:17) Chapter 36 (15:03:09) Chapter 37 (15:29:39) Chapter 38 (15:53:50) Chapter 39 (16:25:21) Chapter 40 (16:51:08) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

  His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama Step into the smoky salons, marble halls and whispering corridors of the Second Empire with Émile Zola’s incisive portrait of power in His Excellency Eugène Rougon, Book Six of the Rougon–Macquart cycle. In this compelling auditory rendition, listeners follow Eugène Rougon, a brilliant, implacable political operator whose temperate exterior masks an iron will and an endless appetite for influence. Zola lays bare the machinery of government—ministerial rivalries, media manipulation, backroom deals and the corrosive pleasures of authority—rendered with the novelist’s uncompromising naturalism and sardonic wit. The novel is as much a study of a single dominant personality as it is a panorama of an era: families, fortunes and reputations are swept up in the tides Rougon steers, and every whispered secret or calculated compromise has consequences. Perfect for listeners who love character-driven narratives and historical realism, this audiobook brings Zola’s razor-sharp observations to life, making the suspense of political ascent and the moral cost of domination impossible to ignore. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:32:32) Chapter 01 (00:57:46) Chapter 02 (01:31:24) Chapter 03 (01:51:21) Chapter 04 (02:16:01) Chapter 05 (02:44:55) Chapter 06 (03:06:52) Chapter 07 (03:30:57) Chapter 08 (03:56:40) Chapter 09 (04:26:59) Chapter 10 (05:02:55) Chapter 11 (05:26:25) Chapter 12 (05:54:58) Chapter 13 (06:24:04) Chapter 14 (07:02:20) Chapter 15 (07:30:17) Chapter 16 (07:57:38) Chapter 17 (08:28:59) Chapter 18 (09:06:20) Chapter 19 (09:34:49) Chapter 20 (09:54:39) Chapter 21 (10:23:42) Chapter 22 (10:49:16) Chapter 23 (11:11:43) Chapter 24 (11:41:58) Chapter 25 (12:11:05) Chapter 26 (12:31:24) Chapter 27 (12:57:35) Chapter 28 (13:35:36) Chapter 29 (14:05:40) Chapter 30 (14:23:20) Chapter 31 (14:48:46) Chapter 32 (15:21:47) Chapter 33 (15:44:20) Chapter 34 (16:09:05) Chapter 35 (16:35:43) Chapter 36 (16:58:52) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• Abbe Mourets Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

  Abbe Mourets Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: tragedy Emile Zola’s La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (Abbé Mouret’s Transgression) unfolds like a fever dream of faith and flesh — an intoxicating, tragic tale of a young priest undone by a tenderness he cannot name. When the devout but fragile Abbé Serge Mouret collapses into amnesia and is taken to a remote, overgrown priory, he awakens into an Eden of sunlight, vines and the simple, unquestioning love of Albine, a pastoral beauty raised among the servants. Zola’s prose luxuriates in the sensory world — the scent of damp earth, the hush of convent walls, the charged brush of skin — while probing the fierce conflict between inherited instinct and imposed piety. As memory and desire return, what begins as an innocent intimacy becomes a culpable betrayal of vows, and the novel ascends toward a heartbreaking moral reckon­ing. For the audiobook listener, this is an immersive experience: a lush, sensual drama driven by psychological intensity and fatal consequences, where nature itself seems complicit in the collapse of ideals. Zola’s unflinching naturalism turns a personal lapse into a broader meditation on heredity, religion, and the devastating cost of denying human longing. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:15:04) Chapter 01 (00:26:51) Chapter 02 (00:47:14) Chapter 03 (00:56:34) Chapter 04 (01:11:25) Chapter 05 (01:26:38) Chapter 06 (01:40:54) Chapter 07 (01:52:54) Chapter 08 (02:09:11) Chapter 09 (02:16:08) Chapter 10 (02:27:36) Chapter 11 (02:54:04) Chapter 12 (03:16:35) Chapter 13 (03:29:37) Chapter 14 (04:08:36) Chapter 15 (04:34:17) Chapter 16 (04:51:48) Chapter 17 (05:04:48) Chapter 18 (05:20:20) Chapter 19 (05:25:44) Chapter 20 (05:40:21) Chapter 21 (05:49:31) Chapter 22 (06:09:04) Chapter 23 (06:31:47) Chapter 24 (06:57:43) Chapter 25 (07:13:18) Chapter 26 (07:35:09) Chapter 27 (07:53:58) Chapter 28 (08:19:14) Chapter 29 (08:36:30) Chapter 30 (08:46:42) Chapter 31 (09:11:20) Chapter 32 (09:26:41) Chapter 33 (09:36:00) Chapter 34 (09:49:08) Chapter 35 (10:11:27) Chapter 36 (10:19:39) Chapter 37 (10:34:21) Chapter 38 (10:46:02) Chapter 39 (11:13:18) Chapter 40 (11:31:38) Chapter 41 (11:53:57) Chapter 42 (12:32:23) Chapter 43 (13:24:49) Chapter 44 (13:38:01) Chapter 45 (13:48:39) Chapter 46 (14:15:49) Chapter 47 (14:22:59) Chapter 48 (14:42:27) Chapter 49 (14:54:27) Chapter 50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

  The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In The Conquest of Plassans, Émile Zola turns his unflinching gaze on a provincial town and the private collapse that mirrors a public takeover: when a determined cleric and his political allies insinuate themselves into the lives of a respectable household, the soft rot of ambition, superstition and social maneuvering spreads until family bonds and reason begin to fray. Zola renders every whispered bargain, petty vendetta and ritual gesture with forensic clarity, building a slow-burning atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread as alliances shift and goodwill is turned into a weapon. Listeners will be drawn into a vivid panorama of 19th-century provincial life — its gossip, its churches, its salons — while witnessing the intimate tragedies that result when ideology and ambition conquer ordinary human tenderness. Part political drama, part psychological tragedy, this installment of the Rougon-Macquart cycle is both a gripping study of power’s quiet invasions and a masterclass in naturalist storytelling, ideal for anyone who loves novels that unsettle as they illuminate. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:17:09) Chapter 01 (00:34:46) Chapter 02 (01:04:27) Chapter 03 (01:32:27) Chapter 04 (01:59:56) Chapter 05 (02:33:41) Chapter 06 (03:14:43) Chapter 07 (03:53:40) Chapter 08 (04:27:32) Chapter 09 (05:00:54) Chapter 10 (05:35:56) Chapter 11 (06:14:31) Chapter 12 (06:47:11) Chapter 13 (07:22:36) Chapter 14 (08:00:21) Chapter 15 (08:48:04) Chapter 16 (09:38:46) Chapter 17 (10:28:27) Chapter 18 (11:22:47) Chapter 19 (12:13:31) Chapter 20 (13:17:02) Chapter 21 (13:50:45) Chapter 22 (14:23:01) Chapter 23 (14:57:59) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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