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Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmée Zola
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Category: Classics
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
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Category: Classics | 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
Germinal by Emile Zola ; Robert (INT) Peter (TRN); Lethbridge Emile; Collier Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Germinal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | 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
Nana by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. 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 Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emula ...Show more
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmee Zola
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Category: Classics
Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in th ...Show more
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand pro ...Show more
The Drinking Den by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people living in the slums of a city. The Drinking Den(1877) is part of the Rougon-Macquart series, a naturalistic history of two branches of a family traced through several generations. Zola's work was influenced ...Show more
The Kill by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'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 and fortunes made in six months. The city had become ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
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 consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics
This is a brand new translation by Adam Thorpe. 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 Therese Raquin is forced to marry ...Show more
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