The Gin Palace - Émile Zola torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: ABRIDGED Les Rougon-Macquart

Written by Émile Zola
Read by Frederick Davidson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Abridged

(THIS EDITION IS AN ABRIDGED TRANSLATION. Posting it simultaneously with the unabridged recording under the novel’s original title, L’Assammoir.)

Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband’s drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise’s plans begin to unravel tragically.

The Gin Palace is the 7th novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. Introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in 19th-century literature, it is also the work that made his reputation.

Recorded in 1997
6 hrs and 52 mins