The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama In a small Provençal town called Plassans, Emile Zola opens the sweeping Rougon-Macquart saga with a story of family hunger and political upheaval. As France trembles on the edge of Louis-Napoleon's December 1851 coup, Pierre Rougon and his formidable wife, Felicite, see history not as tragedy but as opportunity. Determined to claw their way into respectability, they maneuver through gossip, backroom alliances, and shifting loyalties, trying to turn a national crisis into the foundation of a dynasty. Across town, the Rougons' poorer and more volatile relatives, the Macquarts, simmer with resentment, their lives shaped by hardship and the same corrosive inheritance of desire and impulse. Amid the tensions, young Silvere, drawn to republican ideals, finds hope and tenderness with Miette, and their private dreams collide with the brutal realities of street politics and fear. Part historical chronicle, part intimate family portrait, The Fortune of the Rougons introduces Zola's central themes of ambition, class, heredity, and the ways power remakes ordinary lives when a regime is born. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:13:52) Chapter 01 (00:17:44) Chapter 02 (00:55:48) Chapter 03 (01:40:56) Chapter 04 (02:20:16) Chapter 05 (03:26:07) Chapter 06 (04:10:50) Chapter 07 (05:19:24) Chapter 08 (06:25:43) Chapter 09 (07:28:42) Chapter 10 (08:29:22) Chapter 11 (09:29:56) Chapter 12 (10:07:35) Chapter 13 (11:10:13) Chapter 14 (12:17:39) Chapter 15 (13:20:32) Chapter 16 (13:35:52) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices