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The Experimental Novel (1880) is an essay by French author Emile Zola. Written at the height of his career as a leading proponent of Naturalism, The Experimental Novel serves to illuminate the author's approach to the practice and purpose of writing w
Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun... When Thérèse Raquin is forced to marry
Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisf
'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marq
Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern France Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but un
Perhaps his most famous work, Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss. In t
'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a c
'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful nov
'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of
'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the st
Trapped in a loveless, arranged marriage to her spoiled and selfish cousin, Camille, Therese Raquin becomes restless and embarks upon a torrid affair... an affair that will result in murder, guilt, despair and tragedy... Usually considered to be Zola'
Previously published as L'assommoir ( The Dram Shop ), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an int
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which
Therese Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author Emile Zola. Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary magazine, Therese Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous
Nana est l'une des oeuvres les plus repr sentatives de l' crivain Emile Zola, auteur fran ais du naturaliste du XIXe si cle et p re du plus grand exposant de ce mouvement. Nana a t publi en 1880. L'histoire commence en 1868 et d peint deux cat
Some impulses cannot be controlled. Some beasts cannot be caged. Jacques Lantier is a skilled train engineer on the Paris-Le Havre line-competent, respected, seemingly normal. But Jacques harbors a terrible secret: when he desires a woman, he also wants t
Før han begyndte at skrive Nana, vidste Zola intet om Théâtre des Variétés i Paris. Dramatikeren Ludovic Halévy inviterede ham til at deltage i en operette med ham dér den 15. februar 1878 og tog ham bag scenen. Halévy fortalte ham utallige historier om d
Paris (1898) is a novel by French author Emile Zola. Paris is the final installment in Zola's celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola's career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man's struggle with fa
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"The Fortune of the Rougons" by Emile Zola is a captivating novel that delves into the intricacies of French society during the Second Empire. As a cornerstone of French literature, Zola's novel is a sweeping family saga that explores the th
In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and imprisoned