Rome: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Rome, 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 Rome by Émile Zola. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.) Read in English by Peter Tucker The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rome to defend this book against condemnation and seeks audience with the Pope. He is introduced to aristocratic and ecclesiastical society, and during his three months' stay has the opportunity to reflect on the historical position of the "Eternal City", as well as its future and that of the Roman Catholic Church, reflections imbued with Zola's deep skepticism and his modernistic views. The plot, embellished with great detail, includes a thread of dark intrigue by which Pierre is deeply affected. He returns to Paris with a very much revised vision for the future of humanity. (Peter Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Rome
• Author credits: Émile Zola
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 23:38:43

Catalogue topics

• travel
• rome
• papacy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. 01 - Chapter 1 Part 1 — 42:59
2. 02 - Chapter 1 Part 2 — 42:14
3. 03 - Chapter 2 Part 1 — 45:04
4. 04 - Chapter 2 Part 2 — 47:27
5. 05 - Chapter 3 Part 1 — 42:11
6. 06 - Chapter 3 Part 2 — 38:47
7. 07 - Chapter 4 Part 1 — 42:52
8. 08 - Chapter 4 Part 2 — 42:02
9. 09 - Chapter 5 Part 1 — 42:32
10. 10 - Chapter 5 Part 2 — 42:09
11. 11 - Chapter 6 Part 1 — 43:42
12. 12 - Chapter 6 Part 2 — 43:00
13. 13 - Chapter 7 Part 1 — 39:33
14. 14 - Chapter 7 Part 2 — 38:24
15. 15 - Chapter 8 Part1 — 49:14
16. 16 - Chapter 8 Part 2 — 46:33
17. 17 - Chapter 9 Part 1 — 46:44
18. 18 - Chapter 9 Part 2 — 45:05
19. 19 - Chapter 10 Part 1 — 57:44
20. 20 - Chapter 10 Part 2 — 55:42
21. 21 - Chapter 11 Part 1 — 43:11
22. 22 - Chapter 11 Part 2 — 42:30
23. 23 - Chapter 12 Part 1 — 39:49
24. 24 - Chapter 12 Part 2 — 41:11

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