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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
Outsider, The: Insight Text Guide by Nelson, Brian
Category: Education | Series: Insight Text Guide Ser.
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
The Fortune of the Rougons by Brian Nelson; Émile Zola
Category: Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and just as the Empire was est ...Show more
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