Emile Zola Audio

Little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is one of Émile Zola’s most descriptive, humorous, and exciting fictions.

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature.

In the Maheus family, the father and three of seven children work brutal hours to extract coal far beneath the earth…

This work is one of the most starkly realistic dissections of men and women possessed by sensuality and alcoholism ever attempted.

Émile François Zola was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism.

This is a tale set in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III’s France, of a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana.

Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature....

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 for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever.

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was one of the giants of French literature....