author
Émile Zola
1840–1902
A fearless French novelist and journalist, he helped define literary naturalism with vivid, unflinching stories about ordinary lives. His work also made him a major public voice during the Dreyfus Affair, showing how literature and conscience could meet.
103 Audiobooks
The Monomaniac (La bête humaine)
by Émile Zola
The Fête At Coqueville 1907
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
by Émile Zola
The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War
by Émile Zola
The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel
by Émile Zola
Le Rêve
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete
by Émile Zola
Correspondance: Lettres de jeunesse
by Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2
by Émile Zola
Germinal
by Émile Zola
Le Ventre de Paris
by Émile Zola
De drie steden: Lourdes
by Émile Zola
La faute de l'abbé Mouret
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2
by Émile Zola
Theresa Raquin
by Émile Zola
La Terre
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4
by Émile Zola
The Fat and the Thin
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4
by Émile Zola
The Dream
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 1
by Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3
by Émile Zola
La Curée
by Émile Zola
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
by Émile Zola
Germinal
by Émile Zola
Au bonheur des dames
by Émile Zola
Nana
by Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
Contes à Ninon
by Émile Zola
Le Docteur Pascal
by Émile Zola
La Conquête de Plassans
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
by Émile Zola
Fruitfulness
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 1
by Émile Zola
![His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon]](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c51f972dc5c80ef71372/cover.jpg)
His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon]
by Émile Zola
Pot-Bouille
by Émile Zola
The Downfall
by Émile Zola
Lourdes
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete
by Émile Zola
De drie steden: Rome
by Émile Zola
The Fortune of the Rougons
by Émile Zola
La Bête humaine
by Émile Zola
Nouveaux Contes à Ninon
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4
by Émile Zola
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5
by Émile Zola
Une page d'amour
by Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
by Émile Zola
De drie steden: Parijs
by Émile Zola
His Masterpiece
by Émile Zola
L'Œuvre
by Émile Zola
Paris
by Émile Zola
Juutalaisten puolustukseksi
by Émile Zola
Unelma: Romaani
by Émile Zola
The Ladies' Paradise: A Realistic Novel
by Émile Zola
Piping hot! (Pot-bouille) : a realistic novel
by Émile Zola
Kivihiilenkaivajat
by Émile Zola
A Love Episode
by Émile Zola
English Translations of Works of Emile Zola An Index to the Project Gutenberg Works of Zola in English
by Émile Zola
La vérité en marche: L'affaire Dreyfus
by Émile Zola
Rome
by Émile Zola
Hedelmällisyys: Romaani
by Émile Zola
La Débâcle
by Émile Zola
Sota
by Émile Zola
Neljä päivää
by Émile Zola
Naisten aarreaitta
by Émile Zola
Kertomuksia
by Émile Zola
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
by Émile Zola
Doctor Pascal
by Émile Zola
L'Argent
by Émile Zola
The Conquest of Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans)
by Émile Zola
Nantas
by Émile Zola
Totuus
by Émile Zola
![Truth [Vérité]](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c4c9972dc5c80ef706b6/cover.jpg)
Truth [Vérité]
by Émile Zola
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
by Émile Zola
Ed. Manet: étude biographique et critique
by Émile Zola
Ihmispeto: Siveysromaani
by Émile Zola
Le Naturalisme au théâtre, les théories et les exemples
by Émile Zola
Zijn Excellentie Eugène Rougon
by Émile Zola
Rakkauden uhri
by Émile Zola
The Ladies' Paradise
by Émile Zola
Money (L'Argent)
by Émile Zola
For a Night of Love
by Émile Zola
![The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre]](https://listenly.io/api/img/6638c513972dc5c80ef7119c/cover.jpg)
The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre]
by Émile Zola
Rynnäkkö myllyä vastaan
by Émile Zola
Correspondance: Les lettres et les arts
by Émile Zola
The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel
by Émile Zola
The Flood
by Émile Zola
Claude's Confession
by Émile Zola
Raha: Romaani
by Émile Zola
Jacht naar Fortuin
by Émile Zola
About the author
Born in Paris on April 2, 1840, Émile Zola became one of the central figures of 19th-century French literature. He is best known for developing and championing naturalism, a style that aimed to look closely at how heredity, environment, and social conditions shape human lives.
His most famous achievement is the Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, a sweeping series of 20 novels set during the Second Empire. Books such as L'Assommoir, Germinal, and Nana brought him a wide readership with their sharp, often controversial portraits of working life, ambition, poverty, and power.
Zola was not only a novelist but also a public intellectual. In 1898, he became internationally famous for his open letter "J'accuse…!", in which he defended Alfred Dreyfus and challenged a miscarriage of justice that had divided France. He died in Paris on September 29, 1902, but his writing and moral courage have kept his name alive ever since.