L'Assommoir: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

L'Assommoir, 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, by Émile Zola, translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly. Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of Zola's novels were part of a set of twenty novels about a family under the Second Empire collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in the series. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel — a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris — was a huge commercial success and established Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world. (Summary edited from Wikipedia.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: L'Assommoir
• Author credits: Émile Zola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 61
• Listed recording duration: 16:45:22

Catalogue topics

• banned books
• Zola
• Les Rougon-Macquart

Opening tracks: first 24 of 61

1. 00 - Author's preface and introduction — 25:21
2. 01 - Chapter I, part one — 17:19
3. 02 - Chapter I, part two — 16:55
4. 03 - Chapter I, part three — 16:54
5. 04 - Chapter I, part four — 17:46
6. 05 - Chapter II, part one — 15:19
7. 06 - Chapter II, part two — 15:38
8. 07 - Chapter II, part three — 14:37
9. 08 - Chapter II, part four — 16:28
10. 09 - Chapter III, part one — 16:57
11. 10 - Chapter III, part two — 15:43
12. 11 - Chapter III, part three — 15:49
13. 12 - Chapter III, part four — 16:20
14. 13 - Chapter III, part five — 17:01
15. 14 - Chapter IV, part one — 13:53
16. 15 - Chapter IV, part two — 14:51
17. 16 - Chapter IV, part three — 13:52
18. 17 - Chapter IV, part four — 14:17
19. 18 - Chapter IV, part five — 15:06
20. 19 - Chapter V, part one — 16:32
21. 20 - Chapter V, part two — 16:41
22. 21 - Chapter V, part three — 16:42
23. 22 - Chapter V, part four — 16:46
24. 23 - Chapter V, part five — 16:07

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