Emile Zola Audio Books

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

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.

An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled when her husband continues to haunt her.

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

Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rougon-Macquart series. This English translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, was published in 1886.

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

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

The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir.

His Masterpiece (L’Oeuvre) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, Naturalism and Impressionism movements.

This book describes a five day national pilgrimage to the holy shrine of Lourdes, where miracle cures are hoped for.