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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Au Bonheur des Dames Emile Zola publié en 1883, prépublié dès décembre 1882 dans Gil Blas, le onzième volume de la suite romanesque les Rougon-Macquart. À travers une histoire sentimentale, le roman entraîne le lecteur dans le monde des grands magasins, l'une des innovations du Second Empire (1852-1870) ...Show more
Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmée Zola
Category: Fiction
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of `Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of `Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display t ...Show more
Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more
Earth by Emile Zola
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern Franc ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola ; Robert (INT) Peter (TRN); Lethbridge Emile; Collier Zola
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Germinal by Emile Zola
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, "Germinal" is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelli ...Show more
I Accuse! by Emile Zola
Category: Politics
In January 1898 French novelist and critic Emile Zola played an important part in the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew unjustly accused of selling military secrets to Germany. On the front page of a Paris newspaper, the author published a terrific denunciation of French government officia ...Show more
J Accuse by Emile Zola
Category: History
In the letter, Zola addressed President of France F lix Faure and accused the government of anti-Semitism and the unlawful jailing of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Army General Staff officer who was sentenced to lifelong penal servitude for espionage. Zola pointed out judicial errors and lack of serious evid ...Show more