Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten 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 Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola. (Translated by Henry Vizetelly.) Read in English by Mark Leder. Covering a two-year period, Zola recounts the lives, intrigues, quarrel and loves of a group of five families all living in what was at the time an entirely new social construct, the apartment building. This marks the midpoint of Zola's immense undertaking, the Rougon-Macquart Cycle. - Summary by Mark Leder

Recording facts

• Recording title: Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
• Author credits: Émile Zola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 14:59:40

Catalogue topics

• romantic
• dramatic
• naturalistic
• realistic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - Preface — 31:52
2. 01 - Chapter One, Part One — 20:52
3. 02 - Chapter One, Part Two — 26:48
4. 03 - Chapter Two, Part One — 22:59
5. 04 - Chapter Two, Part Two — 22:51
6. 05 - Chapter Three, Part One — 22:29
7. 06 - Chapter Three, Part Two — 33:14
8. 07 - Chapter Four, Part One — 24:27
9. 08 - Chapter Four, Part Two — 24:14
10. 09 - Chapter Five, Part One — 22:27
11. 10 - Chapter Five, Part Two — 30:56
12. 11 - Chapter Six, Part One — 21:39
13. 12 - Chapter Six, Part Two — 27:22
14. 13 - Chapter Seven, Part One — 21:19
15. 14 - Chapter Seven, Part Two — 28:56
16. 15 - Chapter Eight, Part One — 22:11
17. 16 - Chapter Eight, Part Two — 24:36
18. 17 - Chapter Nine, Part One — 20:56
19. 18 - Chapter Nine, Part Two — 23:29
20. 19 - Chapter Ten, Part One — 19:29
21. 20 - Chapter Ten, Part Two — 17:58
22. 21 - Chapter Eleven, Part One — 22:41
23. 22 - Chapter Eleven, Part Two — 21:42
24. 23 - Chapter Twelve, Part One — 24:53

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