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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)
Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris to Le Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge and repression. In the wider cast of Zola’s characters, too, we see just how close to the surface of civilisation the beast within us lurks.
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1 | La Bête Humaine | 10:14 |
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2 | Born in the south of France at Plassans… | 09:24 |
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3 | Thereupon he related in detail how he had been… | 09:53 |
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4 | It was true that since Berthe had married… | 10:01 |
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5 | At home in Le Havre when he was working nights… | 11:08 |
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6 | Once again the story of those years at Doinville… | 09:44 |
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7 | Séverine, from the bed, where she remained seated… | 10:28 |
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8 | At a quarter past six, the locomotive of the Le Havre… | 08:58 |
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9 | Chapter 2 | 09:44 |
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10 | She was burning with concealed timorous rancour… | 10:32 |
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11 | Jacques nodded his head to say that he agreed… | 10:42 |
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12 | He had to assist her to her room, where she got into… | 10:24 |
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13 | She had let the scissors slip away from her… | 10:13 |
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14 | A train again passed by with the flash of its lights… | 09:33 |
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15 | Jacques walked about for nearly another hour… | 08:22 |
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16 | Then Jacques had a desire to see the wound… | 07:37 |
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17 | Chapter 3 | 10:09 |
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18 | Roubaud, returning inside the station, found the gang… | 09:50 |
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19 | This was true. Victoire, who was two years his senior… | 08:56 |
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20 | At the front resided the station-master… | 10:24 |
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21 | It so happened that they were there… | 10:57 |
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22 | From this moment all accusations were out of the… | 08:59 |
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23 | Chapter 4 | 09:11 |
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24 | This information burst on him like a thunderbolt… | 09:21 |
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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 |
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28 | For the last three weeks, Jacques had been pursued… | 10:44 |
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29 | But Monsieur Denizet proved tenacious, for he… | 10:56 |
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30 | And that was all Monsieur Denizet could get… | 09:31 |
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31 | Chapter 5 | 10:09 |
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32 | Then, in despair, she was tormented by the desire… | 09:14 |
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33 | He looked at her, and saw the corners of her mouth… | 10:33 |
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34 | The Secretary General confined himself to shaking… | 10:49 |
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35 | From that moment, in her uncertainty as to his… | 10:23 |
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36 | A nursemaid appeared, with her baby asleep in her arms. | 09:34 |
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37 | Among the other locomotives at rest in the vast… | 08:00 |
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38 | It struck six. Jacques and Pecqueux climbed up to the… | 08:20 |
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39 | Chapter 6 | 09:35 |
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40 | It seemed that the same somnolence had overtaken… | 10:30 |
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41 | Roubaud had no remorse. He had only been afraid… | 09:29 |
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42 | At that same hour, in the office of the assistant… | 10:02 |
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43 | The canteen, in fact, was at hand, right next to… | 10:01 |
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44 | Séverine was also lost in reflections, happy to be… | 08:19 |
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45 | Jacques no longer had any doubt that he was cured… | 07:19 |
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46 | Little by little, the tranquillity that had settled upon… | 08:27 |
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47 | Chapter 7 | 10:50 |
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48 | La Lison, with this man clinging to her side… | 09:48 |
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49 | Jacques at once felt that the state of the line had… | 10:11 |
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50 | The train had been close upon an hour in distress… | 10:55 |
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51 | But Flore had recognised Séverine. She, who watched… | 10:21 |
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52 | It was Jacques who had escaped with good news. | 06:19 |
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53 | And sure enough, Misard entered a few seconds later. | 07:24 |
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54 | Flore remained standing, presenting the tall stature of… | 10:28 |
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55 | Chapter 8 | 10:16 |
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56 | She made no answer, being absorbed by thoughts of… | 10:21 |
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57 | Jacques had not moved. He lay there inert, reflecting… | 10:09 |
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58 | She shivered, and broke off to say, in a voice that had… | 11:03 |
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59 | Séverine's desire had slowly mounted as she narrated… | 09:23 |
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60 | But, at the sight of this white throat, he was… | 09:38 |
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61 | The train stopped, and went on again every few… | 08:15 |
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62 | Chapter 9 | 10:45 |
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63 | Weeks passed, and this money which Roubaud had… | 09:51 |
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64 | From that moment Séverine ceased trembling. | 10:44 |
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65 | This intimacy of Séverine and Philomène having… | 11:12 |
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66 | As the train sped merrily on its way, Mantes appeared… | 10:17 |
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67 | Séverine stood there listening to him with vacant eyes. | 11:00 |
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68 | Dawn was breaking when Jacques succeeded in… | 10:53 |
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69 | Jacques and Séverine, halted in their tracks… | 11:09 |
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70 | Chapter 10 | 10:10 |
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71 | Assuredly this was what barred her heart. | 09:51 |
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72 | Ozil, with the shout of a man awakened in a house… | 10:16 |
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73 | Minutes slipped away, but Flore did not move. | 08:42 |
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74 | That morning Jacques had smiled at Séverine… | 09:29 |
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75 | Séverine, trampled under foot, with her hair falling… | 10:28 |
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76 | Then came a heartrending scene: in an upturned… | 09:18 |
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77 | Help came at last, after waiting a couple of hours. | 10:51 |
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78 | When Flore awoke, night had completely set in. | 08:09 |
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79 | Chapter 11 | 09:28 |
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80 | Nevertheless, one morning, when Cabuche was there… | 11:34 |
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81 | In truth, Séverine, who was so slight and not at all… | 10:16 |
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82 | Jacques, in the fury of madness, excited by her… | 11:11 |
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83 | The day passed as had been arranged by Séverine… | 10:13 |
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84 | Séverine continued to lie still in that bed. | 10:34 |
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85 | Jacques was astonished. He heard the sniffing of… | 08:35 |
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86 | Chapter 12 | 09:13 |
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87 | A pause followed, and all three slowly drank their… | 10:23 |
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88 | But when Monsieur Denizet reached this point he for… | 09:45 |
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89 | And it was here the examining-magistrate displayed… | 10:59 |
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90 | From time to time there still appeared all sorts of… | 08:28 |
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91 | Monsieur Denizet concluded the enquiry in less than… | 10:08 |
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92 | Roubaud, in the same way, kept to what the… | 09:52 |
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93 | On leaving the law courts, Jacques was joined by… | 10:26 |
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94 | The train which should have left at six o'clock was… | 10:57 |
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