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
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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
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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
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The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [family]
The Fat and the Thin, Book Three of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook.
Genre: family
Part of Emile Zola’s monumental Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Fat and the Thin plunges the listener into the heady, pungent world of mid‑19th‑century Paris, where appetite and ambition shape the fate of families and the fortunes of a city. With hallucinatory sensory detail and uncompromising social observation, Zola paints the great market and its surrounding quarters as a living organism — overflowing with abundance for some, barely subsisting for others — and sets intimate human dramas against the grinding machinery of power and class. This audiobook invites you to wander through the stalls, overhear whispered betrayals, and feel the pressure of hunger and desire that drive characters to tenderness, cruelty, or desperate revolt. At once a vivid portrait of daily life and a searing satire of greed and complacency, The Fat and the Thin is storytelling that rewards attentive listening: the cadence of Zola’s sentences and the richness of his scene‑setting come alive in a performance that turns smell and sound into narrative force. Ideal for lovers of literary realism and historical social drama, this installment of the Rougon‑Macquart series reveals how personal appetites mirror wider political appetites — and how the fortunes of a family are folded into the fortunes of an era.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:26:42) Chapter 01
(01:20:04) Chapter 02
(02:16:04) Chapter 03
(03:17:57) Chapter 04
(04:09:20) Chapter 05
(05:07:11) Chapter 06
(06:06:11) Chapter 07
(07:08:24) Chapter 08
(08:21:02) Chapter 09
(09:30:53) Chapter 10
(10:29:31) Chapter 11
(11:29:18) Chapter 12
(12:26:28) Chapter 13
(13:27:41) Chapter 14
(14:00:51) Chapter 15
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The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook.
Genre: drama
Set against the roaring transformation of Second Empire Paris, The Rush for the Spoil is Émile Zola’s vivid, uncompromising portrait of money, desire, and moral collapse. As vast boulevards rise from the old neighborhoods and fortunes are made overnight by ruthless speculation, Aristide Saccard pursues a dazzling empire of real estate while his young wife Renée drifts into a gilded prison of luxury and forbidden passion. Zola’s narrator leads listeners through glittering salons, subterranean deals and decadent bedrooms with an unflinching ear for the social forces that drive people to ruin: ambition, vanity, greed and the intoxicating promise of quick wealth. Lushly atmospheric and sharply observed, this audiobook offers the grandeur of Haussmann’s Paris, the fever of a society remade by capitalism, and the tragic human cost beneath the surface glamour — a dramatic, immersive experience that makes the past feel urgent and disturbingly modern.
Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:15:00) Chapter 01
(01:09:21) Chapter 02
(02:07:59) Chapter 03
(03:17:18) Chapter 04
(04:20:03) Chapter 05
(05:02:37) Chapter 06
(06:05:54) Chapter 07
(07:07:45) Chapter 08
(08:22:11) Chapter 09
(09:12:58) Chapter 10
(09:59:20) Chapter 11
(10:37:10) Chapter 12
(11:34:38) Chapter 13
(12:37:00) Chapter 14
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