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Germinal, published in 1885, is widely regarded as Émile Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in French literature. Part of Zola's ambitious Rougon-Macquart series, Germinal is known for its unflinching portrayal of social injustice and its role in inspiring workers' movements.
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La curée
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- By: Émile Zola
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Le second empire vu sous l'angle des Rougon, archétypes de la bourgeoisie ambitieuse et parvenue.
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La curée
- Rougon-Macquart 2
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La Terre
- [The Earth]
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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....
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La Terre
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La bête humaine
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La bête humaine
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La débâcle
- Rougon-Macquart 19
- By: Émile Zola
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À la suite de la mort de son épouse, Jean Macquart, désespéré, personnage principal de "La Terre", reprend du service dans l'armée...
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La débâcle
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Le ventre de Paris
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Sous le second empire, le bouleversement de Paris voit le quartier marchand se transformer avec l'apparition du projet Baltard...
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Le ventre de Paris
- Rougon-Macquart 3
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- Release date: 05-27-14
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Germinal
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- By: Émile Zola
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Étienne Lantier, mécanicien au chômage, erre sur les routes du nord de la France. Au hasard d'une rencontre, frigorifié et mort de faim, il finit par...
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A masterpiece to be read
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La fortune des Rougon
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La fortune des Rougon
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La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)
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The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris-to-Le-Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman, in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge, and repression....
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Compelling storytelling with bits of Ultraviolence
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La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 17
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Au bonheur des dames
- Rougon-Macquart 11
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Évelyne Lecucq
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15
Octave Mouret, précurseur inspiré, bouleverse sa corporation comme Haussmann bouleverse la ville. Il parie tout sur les femmes, sur leurs envies et sur leur incapacité à surmonter les tentations.
Une lui résiste : Denise, incarnation de la vertu et de la générosité. Elle devient une obsession pour cet ogre.-
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Au bonheur des dames
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Blood, Sex and Money
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- By: Émile Zola
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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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....
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Addictive, Edifying Fun - Truly Outstanding
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Blood, Sex and Money
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- Length: 23 hrs and 18 mins
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The Masterpiece
- By: Émile Zola
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak, and raw portrait of unrecognized artistic genius....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragic and compelling
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The Masterpiece
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- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 14
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- Release date: 03-13-20
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The Ladies' Paradise
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
Country girl Denise Baudu arrives in Paris hoping for a position in her uncle's clothing shop. However, her uncle's shop, along with other small shops in the area, is doing poorly....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator stands in the way of the book.
- By Susan C. S. on 01-28-14
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-24-13
- Language: English
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Money
- By: Émile Zola, Valerie Minogue - translator
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A forgotten gem
- By J. on 07-05-16
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Money
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 18
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 08-13-14
- Language: English
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Germinal
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- By: Émile Zola, Roger Pearson - translator
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Considered by André Gide to be one of the 10 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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Favorite
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Germinal
- Penguin Classics
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- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 21 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-23-20
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Nana
- By: Émile Zola
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
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....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and devastating
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Nana
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- Release date: 05-21-18
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Thérèse Raquin
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,574
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,437
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4 out of 5 stars
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worth a listen
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Thérèse Raquin
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- Release date: 03-08-12
- Language: English
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Au Bonheur des Dames
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14
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....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Zola Hates Women
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The Ladies' Paradise
- Au Bonheur des Dames
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 11
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-20-21
- Language: English
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Germinal
- By: Émile Zola
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Widely regarded as Zola's masterpiece, the novel describes the working conditions of French coalminers in the 1860s in harsh and realistic terms. It is visceral, graphic, and unrelenting....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous!
- By Jim and Tori M. on 02-19-18
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Germinal
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 13
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-22-15
- Language: English
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The Belly of Paris
- By: Émile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly - translator
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zola’s best novels....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not keen on Davidson’s voice
- By Jeff Lacy on 05-08-21
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The Belly of Paris
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Series: Rougon-Macquart, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 10-20-12
- Language: English
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