Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
by Émile Zola
Chapter 1 of 51 Introduction
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- Running time
- 15 h 14 min
- Language
- English
- Read by
- Mark Leder
- Translated by
- Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
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About this recording
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret, the son of Francois and Marthe, is now a priest, in the little backwater of Artauds. After he suffers a breakdown, with subsequent amnesia, however, he enters into a romance with the childlike Albine, which leads to catastrophe. - Summary by Mark Leder