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A Love Story by Émile Zola; Helen Constantine (Translator); Brian Nelson (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.'Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and ...Show more
His Exellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola; Brian Nelson (Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eug ne Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire societ ...Show more
The Assommoir by Émile Zola; Brian Nelson; Robert Lethbridge (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'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 in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But ...Show more
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