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The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
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The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama Set against the roaring transformation of Second Empire Paris, The Rush for the Spoil is Émile Zola’s vivid, uncompromising portrait of money, desire, and moral collapse. As vast boulevards rise from the old neighborhoods and fortunes are made overnight by ruthless speculation, Aristide Saccard pursues a dazzling empire of real estate while his young wife Renée drifts into a gilded prison of luxury and forbidden passion. Zola’s narrator leads listeners through glittering salons, subterranean deals and decadent bedrooms with an unflinching ear for the social forces that drive people to ruin: ambition, vanity, greed and the intoxicating promise of quick wealth. Lushly atmospheric and sharply observed, this audiobook offers the grandeur of Haussmann’s Paris, the fever of a society remade by capitalism, and the tragic human cost beneath the surface glamour — a dramatic, immersive experience that makes the past feel urgent and disturbingly modern. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:15:00) Chapter 01 (01:09:21) Chapter 02 (02:07:59) Chapter 03 (03:17:18) Chapter 04 (04:20:03) Chapter 05 (05:02:37) Chapter 06 (06:05:54) Chapter 07 (07:07:45) Chapter 08 (08:22:11) Chapter 09 (09:12:58) Chapter 10 (09:59:20) Chapter 11 (10:37:10) Chapter 12 (11:34:38) Chapter 13 (12:37:00) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices