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Three by Zola
- Narrated by: Walter Covell
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Summary
Editor reviews
Walter Covell accentuates the Frenchness of 19th-century writer Emile Zola and his politically engaged work. This collection consists of three stories.
In the comic-tragic "Captain Burle", a retired soldier engages in duel to defend his honor and satisfy his demanding mother. "The Miller’s Daughter" is a moving story about a rural French family dealing with an occupying force of Prussian soldiers. And in the wrenching "The Death of Olivier Becaille", a man in a coma state is believed to be dead and prepared for a funeral.
In an interesting choice, Covell performs these stories in a heavy but intelligible Parisian accent, his voices rising theatrically or growing gruff when delivering dialogue.