Nana by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

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10/03/23

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Nana by Emile Zola audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In the glittering yet rotten heart of Paris under the Second Empire, Nana rises from the working-class streets to become the city's most notorious courtesan. Introduced amid the heat of the theater world, she is young, magnetic, and dangerous, a woman whose beauty turns desire into obsession and appetite into ruin. As financiers, aristocrats, politicians, and soldiers compete for her attention, Zola follows the ripple effect of Nana's presence through drawing rooms, racing tracks, and back alleys, exposing a society that prizes spectacle while hiding its corruption. Nana herself is no simple seductress: driven by hunger, pride, and the need to survive, she discovers how quickly power can shift when everyone wants to possess you. With a cast of men and women pulled into her orbit, the novel builds a relentless portrait of ambition, hypocrisy, and moral decay, asking who truly holds control in a world built on money and illusion. Bold, unsparing, and darkly vivid, Nana is a scandalous social panorama and a study of desire as a force that consumes both its target and its worshippers.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:11) Chapter 01

(00:47:58) Chapter 02

(01:19:25) Chapter 03

(01:44:35) Chapter 04

(02:13:05) Chapter 05

(02:38:50) Chapter 06

(03:02:46) Chapter 07

(03:45:08) Chapter 08

(04:17:53) Chapter 09

(04:58:29) Chapter 10

(05:36:50) Chapter 11

(06:17:24) Chapter 12

(06:56:07) Chapter 13

(07:31:19) Chapter 14

(08:06:01) Chapter 15

(08:49:30) Chapter 16

(09:30:59) Chapter 17

(09:59:50) Chapter 18

(10:31:33) Chapter 19

(11:09:00) Chapter 20

(11:41:36) Chapter 21

(12:23:10) Chapter 22

(13:02:56) Chapter 23

(13:29:48) Chapter 24

(13:56:19) Chapter 25

(14:27:58) Chapter 26

(15:00:57) Chapter 27

(15:37:07) Chapter 28

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My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

October 2, 2023

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179m

My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon audiobook.

Genre: comedy

Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster's The Coquette, focused on how terrible it is for a woman to flirt before her marriage. 'I did not speak 20 sentences before sir Robert proposed to me', explained Lady Bidulph while teaching her daughter how to court properly in 'Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph'. A coquette must be a fool, wicked, and immoral. But Peggy is none of these. She sees things as they are, sometimes too much for her own good, and flirts with men she finds interesting. She decides to tell about them, from her point of view. The feelings, the reasons they did not keep in touch, and her 'notions' about them. This is her way to examine late Victorian society including the lives of other oppressed minorities. This novel is considered semi autobiographical

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:13:15) Chapter 02

(00:25:03) Chapter 03

(00:35:54) Chapter 04

(00:48:15) Chapter 05

(01:02:23) Chapter 06

(01:15:45) Chapter 07

(01:28:52) Chapter 08

(01:42:51) Chapter 09

(01:56:54) Chapter 10

(02:11:21) Chapter 11

(02:24:20) Chapter 12

(02:37:57) Chapter 13

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The Markets of Paris by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

October 3, 2023

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455m

The Markets of Paris by Emile Zola audiobook.

Genre: drama

The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood, when poor and friendless, he lived among the people, that much of the information which makes these pages so startlingly vivid, was acquired. How many mornings, long before dawn, must he have visited these markets – how many hours and days must he have spent there, to have mastered the habits, manners and ways of these people, who are a class by themselves, and of whom we do not lose sight, from the beginning to the end of the book. He introduces us to the Parisian charcutier – the cook shop – and in La Belle Lina, the mistress of the establishment, we find the sister of Gervaise, the woman who stirred the depths of our hearts with pity, in L’Assommoir. In truth The Markets of Paris stands as utterly alone in modern French literature, as it is distinct and apart, from any other work even by Zola himself. It is a book for all to read.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:49) Chapter 02

(00:58:22) Chapter 03

(01:27:19) Chapter 04

(02:01:45) Chapter 05

(02:39:02) Chapter 06

(03:09:38) Chapter 07

(03:39:29) Chapter 08

(04:08:56) Chapter 09

(04:37:20) Chapter 10