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Author(s): Zola, Émile
Reader(s): Pugh, Leighton
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA0493
Barcode: 9781781983553
Release Date: 01/2021
ZOLA, É.: Bête Humaine (La) (Unabridged)
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Zola, Émile - Author
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
|  | 1 | La Bête Humaine | 10:14 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 2 | Born in the south of France at Plassans… | 09:24 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 3 | Thereupon he related in detail how he had been… | 09:53 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 4 | It was true that since Berthe had married… | 10:01 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 5 | At home in Le Havre when he was working nights… | 11:08 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 6 | Once again the story of those years at Doinville… | 09:44 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 7 | Séverine, from the bed, where she remained seated… | 10:28 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 8 | At a quarter past six, the locomotive of the Le Havre… | 08:58 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 9 | Chapter 2 | 09:44 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 10 | She was burning with concealed timorous rancour… | 10:32 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 11 | Jacques nodded his head to say that he agreed… | 10:42 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 12 | He had to assist her to her room, where she got into… | 10:24 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 13 | She had let the scissors slip away from her… | 10:13 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 14 | A train again passed by with the flash of its lights… | 09:33 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 15 | Jacques walked about for nearly another hour… | 08:22 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 16 | Then Jacques had a desire to see the wound… | 07:37 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 17 | Chapter 3 | 10:09 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 18 | Roubaud, returning inside the station, found the gang… | 09:50 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 19 | This was true. Victoire, who was two years his senior… | 08:56 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 20 | At the front resided the station-master… | 10:24 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 21 | It so happened that they were there… | 10:57 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 22 | From this moment all accusations were out of the… | 08:59 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 23 | Chapter 4 | 09:11 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 24 | This information burst on him like a thunderbolt… | 09:21 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 25 | Other members of the company's staff at Rouen… | 10:45 |
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| | 26 | In this sentence the prudery of the respectable… | 09:08 |
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| | 27 | She, indeed, having always been very rich… | 10:19 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 28 | For the last three weeks, Jacques had been pursued… | 10:44 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 29 | But Monsieur Denizet proved tenacious, for he… | 10:56 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 30 | And that was all Monsieur Denizet could get… | 09:31 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 31 | Chapter 5 | 10:09 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 32 | Then, in despair, she was tormented by the desire… | 09:14 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 33 | He looked at her, and saw the corners of her mouth… | 10:33 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 34 | The Secretary General confined himself to shaking… | 10:49 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 35 | From that moment, in her uncertainty as to his… | 10:23 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 36 | A nursemaid appeared, with her baby asleep in her arms. | 09:34 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 37 | Among the other locomotives at rest in the vast… | 08:00 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 38 | It struck six. Jacques and Pecqueux climbed up to the… | 08:20 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 39 | Chapter 6 | 09:35 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 40 | It seemed that the same somnolence had overtaken… | 10:30 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 41 | Roubaud had no remorse. He had only been afraid… | 09:29 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 42 | At that same hour, in the office of the assistant… | 10:02 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 43 | The canteen, in fact, was at hand, right next to… | 10:01 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 44 | Séverine was also lost in reflections, happy to be… | 08:19 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 45 | Jacques no longer had any doubt that he was cured… | 07:19 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 46 | Little by little, the tranquillity that had settled upon… | 08:27 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 47 | Chapter 7 | 10:50 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 48 | La Lison, with this man clinging to her side… | 09:48 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 49 | Jacques at once felt that the state of the line had… | 10:11 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 50 | The train had been close upon an hour in distress… | 10:55 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 51 | But Flore had recognised Séverine. She, who watched… | 10:21 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 52 | It was Jacques who had escaped with good news. | 06:19 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 53 | And sure enough, Misard entered a few seconds later. | 07:24 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 54 | Flore remained standing, presenting the tall stature of… | 10:28 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 55 | Chapter 8 | 10:16 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 56 | She made no answer, being absorbed by thoughts of… | 10:21 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 57 | Jacques had not moved. He lay there inert, reflecting… | 10:09 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 58 | She shivered, and broke off to say, in a voice that had… | 11:03 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 59 | Séverine's desire had slowly mounted as she narrated… | 09:23 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 60 | But, at the sight of this white throat, he was… | 09:38 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 61 | The train stopped, and went on again every few… | 08:15 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 62 | Chapter 9 | 10:45 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 63 | Weeks passed, and this money which Roubaud had… | 09:51 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 64 | From that moment Séverine ceased trembling. | 10:44 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 65 | This intimacy of Séverine and Philomène having… | 11:12 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 66 | As the train sped merrily on its way, Mantes appeared… | 10:17 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 67 | Séverine stood there listening to him with vacant eyes. | 11:00 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 68 | Dawn was breaking when Jacques succeeded in… | 10:53 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 69 | Jacques and Séverine, halted in their tracks… | 11:09 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 70 | Chapter 10 | 10:10 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 71 | Assuredly this was what barred her heart. | 09:51 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 72 | Ozil, with the shout of a man awakened in a house… | 10:16 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 73 | Minutes slipped away, but Flore did not move. | 08:42 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 74 | That morning Jacques had smiled at Séverine… | 09:29 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 75 | Séverine, trampled under foot, with her hair falling… | 10:28 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 76 | Then came a heartrending scene: in an upturned… | 09:18 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 77 | Help came at last, after waiting a couple of hours. | 10:51 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 78 | When Flore awoke, night had completely set in. | 08:09 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 79 | Chapter 11 | 09:28 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 80 | Nevertheless, one morning, when Cabuche was there… | 11:34 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 81 | In truth, Séverine, who was so slight and not at all… | 10:16 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 82 | Jacques, in the fury of madness, excited by her… | 11:11 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 83 | The day passed as had been arranged by Séverine… | 10:13 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 84 | Séverine continued to lie still in that bed. | 10:34 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 85 | Jacques was astonished. He heard the sniffing of… | 08:35 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 86 | Chapter 12 | 09:13 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 87 | A pause followed, and all three slowly drank their… | 10:23 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 88 | But when Monsieur Denizet reached this point he for… | 09:45 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 89 | And it was here the examining-magistrate displayed… | 10:59 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 90 | From time to time there still appeared all sorts of… | 08:28 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 91 | Monsieur Denizet concluded the enquiry in less than… | 10:08 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 92 | Roubaud, in the same way, kept to what the… | 09:52 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 93 | On leaving the law courts, Jacques was joined by… | 10:26 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
| | 94 | The train which should have left at six o'clock was… | 10:57 |
Pugh, Leighton (Reader)
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