L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 41 original MP3 tracks, 17:05:33 running time and a link to listen.
L'Assommoir, Book Seven 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.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.) Read in English by Mark Leder. Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the roofer Coupeau, and has a daughter, nicknamed Nana. She opens her own laundry; then everything goes downhill, as both Gervaise and Coupeau succumb to alcoholism. - Summary by Mark Leder
Recording facts
- Recording title: L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
- Author credits: Émile Zola
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 41
- Listed recording duration: 17:05:33
Catalogue topics
- dark
- grim
- realistic
- pessimistic
- gritty
Opening tracks: first 24 of 41
- 01 - Chapter One, Part One — 24:43
- 02 - Chapter One, Part Two — 16:57
- 03 - Chapter One, Part Three — 32:06
- 04 - Chapter Two, Part One — 24:53
- 05 - Chapter Two, Part Two — 16:50
- 06 - Chapter Two, Part Three — 30:23
- 07 - Chapter Three, Part One — 27:05
- 08 - Chapter Three, Part Two — 25:55
- 09 - Chapter Three, Part Three — 29:14
- 10 - Chapter Four, Part One — 26:06
- 11 - Chapter Four, Part Two — 24:24
- 12 - Chapter Four, Part Three — 25:24
- 13 - Chapter Five, Part One — 28:48
- 14 - Chapter Five, Part Two — 22:00
- 15 - Chapter Five, Part Three — 31:24
- 16 - Chapter Six, Part One — 25:36
- 17 - Chapter Six, Part Two — 22:09
- 18 - Chapter Six, Part Three — 27:28
- 19 - Chapter Seven, Part One — 25:50
- 20 - Chapter Seven, Part Two — 23:45
- 21 - Chapter Seven, Part Three — 21:26
- 22 - Chapter Seven, Part Four — 22:54
- 23 - Chapter Eight, Part One — 23:25
- 24 - Chapter Eight, Part Two — 17:16
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