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Germinal

Author : Emile Zola

Performed By : Frederick Davidson

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 17 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $33.95

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"Few readers of audiobooks can match Frederick Davidson's remarkable skill.he's equal

to the task, rendering this complex, yet worthwhile, novel accessible to all listeners."--AudioFile

With flawless construction and impeccable detail, Zola chronicles the conflicts, lusts, and deprivation of life

in the coal fields of nineteenth-century France. A father and three of seven children work brutal hours, facing

hazards such as landslides, fire, and poisoned air, to scrape together enough money for food. When their

lodger, tienne, shares ideas of a workers' revolt, the family gradually embraces his plans. Soon the

settlement is aflame with resolve to strike for better wages and working conditions. Savage and horrifying

events ensue as miners clash with management and with each other.



Published in 1885, Germinal helped establish Emile Zola--an artist of unsparing candor--as the leading

figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. Andr Gide chose this masterpiece as one of the ten best

novels in the French language.

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Blood

Author : Various

Performed By : Full Cast Production

Publisher : Listen & Live

Runtime : 6 hours

Categories : Dramatizations
American
Pre 1900
Military

Our Price : $24.95 $16.25

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"Listen & Live's Adrenaline Series is one of the best in the genre." - The Denver Post

The Civil War, the most dramatic moment in our nation's history, also produced some of our greatest literature. From tragic charges to prison escapes to the desolation wrought on those who stayed behind, Blood is an extraordinary collection of reminiscences, fiction, and excerpts from diaries and letters by an array of soldiers, writers and observers.