Abbe Mourets Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

Emile Zola’s La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (Abbé Mouret’s Transgression) unfolds like a fever dream of faith and flesh — an intoxicating, tragic tale of a young priest undone by a tenderness he cannot name. When the devout but fragile Abbé Serge Mouret collapses into amnesia and is taken to a remote, overgrown priory, he awakens into an Eden of sunlight, vines and the simple, unquestioning love of Albine, a pastoral beauty raised among the servants. Zola’s prose luxuriates in the sensory world — the scent of damp earth, the hush of convent walls, the charged brush of skin — while probing the fierce conflict between inherited instinct and imposed piety. As memory and desire return, what begins as an innocent intimacy becomes a culpable betrayal of vows, and the novel ascends toward a heartbreaking moral reckon­ing. For the audiobook listener, this is an immersive experience: a lush, sensual drama driven by psychological intensity and fatal consequences, where nature itself seems complicit in the collapse of ideals. Zola’s unflinching naturalism turns a personal lapse into a broader meditation on heredity, religion, and the devastating cost of denying human longing.

Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00 ) Chapter 00

(00:15:04 ) Chapter 01

(00:26:51 ) Chapter 02

(00:47:14 ) Chapter 03

(00:56:34 ) Chapter 04

(01:11:25 ) Chapter 05

(01:26:38 ) Chapter 06

(01:40:54 ) Chapter 07

(01:52:54 ) Chapter 08

(02:09:11 ) Chapter 09

(02:16:08 ) Chapter 10

(02:27:36 ) Chapter 11

(02:54:04 ) Chapter 12

(03:16:35 ) Chapter 13

(03:29:37 ) Chapter 14

(04:08:36 ) Chapter 15

(04:34:17 ) Chapter 16

(04:51:48 ) Chapter 17

(05:04:48 ) Chapter 18

(05:20:20 ) Chapter 19

(05:25:44 ) Chapter 20

(05:40:21 ) Chapter 21

(05:49:31 ) Chapter 22

(06:09:04 ) Chapter 23

(06:31:47 ) Chapter 24

(06:57:43 ) Chapter 25

(07:13:18 ) Chapter 26

(07:35:09 ) Chapter 27

(07:53:58 ) Chapter 28

(08:19:14 ) Chapter 29

(08:36:30 ) Chapter 30

(08:46:42 ) Chapter 31

(09:11:20 ) Chapter 32

(09:26:41 ) Chapter 33

(09:36:00 ) Chapter 34

(09:49:08 ) Chapter 35

(10:11:27 ) Chapter 36

(10:19:39 ) Chapter 37

(10:34:21 ) Chapter 38

(10:46:02 ) Chapter 39

(11:13:18 ) Chapter 40

(11:31:38 ) Chapter 41

(11:53:57 ) Chapter 42

(12:32:23 ) Chapter 43

(13:24:49 ) Chapter 44

(13:38:01 ) Chapter 45

(13:48:39 ) Chapter 46

(14:15:49 ) Chapter 47

(14:22:59 ) Chapter 48

(14:42:27 ) Chapter 49

(14:54:27 ) Chapter 50

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