His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle, credited to Émile Zola, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.) Read in English by Mark Leder. Here, in Zola's sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, we get to know Pierre and Felicite's eldest son, Eugene. He's the son that made good, and stands at the pinnacle of power, at the very ear of the Emperor. But power carries with it its own perils, and so Eugene must face all manner of downturns and reversals to his fortune, and must encounter obstacles of all kinds, the chief of which being Clorinde Dalbi, an Italian beauty with the ambition and deviousness to match his own. - Summary by Mark Leder

Recording facts

• Recording title: His Excellency Eugene Rougon, Book Six of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
• Author credits: Émile Zola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 17:05:26

Catalogue topics

• politics
• intrigue
• strategy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - Preface — 32:32
2. 01 - Chapter One, Part One — 25:14
3. 02 - Chapter One, Part Two — 33:38
4. 03 - Chapter Two, Part One — 19:57
5. 04 - Chapter Two, Part Two — 24:40
6. 05 - Chapter Two, Part Three — 28:54
7. 06 - Chapter Three, Part One — 21:57
8. 07 - Chapter Three, Part Two — 24:05
9. 08 - Chapter Three, Part Three — 25:43
10. 09 - Chapter Four, Part One — 30:19
11. 10 - Chapter Four, Part Two — 35:56
12. 11 - Chapter Five, Part One — 23:30
13. 12 - Chapter Five, Part Two — 28:33
14. 13 - Chapter Six, Part One — 29:06
15. 14 - Chapter Six, Part Two — 38:16
16. 15 - Chapter Seven, Part One — 27:57
17. 16 - Chapter Seven, Part Two — 27:21
18. 17 - Chapter Seven, Part Three — 31:21
19. 18 - Chapter Eight, Part One — 37:21
20. 19 - Chapter Eight, Part Two — 28:29
21. 20 - Chapter Eight, Part Three — 19:50
22. 21 - Chapter Nine, Part One — 29:03
23. 22 - Chapter Nine, Part Two — 25:34
24. 23 - Chapter Nine, Part Three — 22:27

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