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The Dream

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 33 minutes
ISBN
9781802561036
Published
15 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • naturalism
  • romance
  • romantic
  • tale
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french

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Description

Immerse yourself in the ethereal romance of "The Dream" by Emile Zola, where dreams and reality intertwine in a tapestry of longing and devotion. Young Angélique, an orphaned embroiderer, lives a secluded life surrounded by the beauty of her craft and the legends of saints. Her heart yearns for an impossible love, awakening when she encounters Félicien, an aristocrat who embodies her dreams. As love battles fate, Zola's enchanting tale explores the power of hope and the spiritual yearning for transcendence.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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