Delphi Classic. 2012. — 12119 p.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
Hesperus Press, 2002. — 100 p. — ISBN: 1843910101; ISBN13: 9781843910107. A.N. Wilson (Introduction), Andrew Brown (Translator) In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment—romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she...
Modern Library, 2005. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0812966376; ISBN13: 9780812966374. Here is a true publishing event–the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction’s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola’s The Kill (La Curée) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author’s...
Modern Library, 2009. — 325 p. — ISBN: 0812974220; ISBN13: 9780812974225. Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 307 p. — ISBN: 0199664781; ISBN13: 9780199664788. 'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with Francois, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe...
OUP Oxford, 2018. — 561 p. — ISBN: 9780191065163. 'He loved power for power's sake...He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène 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 échelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it...
Penguin Classics, 2004. — 480 p. — ISBN: 014044954X; ISBN13: 9780140449549. 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 introduction by Robin Buss. Abandoned by her lover and...
Dover Publications, 2006. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0486452395; ISBN13: 978-0486452395. Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana—the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 438 p. — ISBN: 0199675961; ISBN13: 9780199675968. The Ladies' Paradise is a compelling story of ambition and love set against the backdrop of the spectacular rise of the department store in 1860s Paris. Octave Mouret is a business genius who transforms a modest draper's shop into a hugely successful retail enterprise, masterfully exploiting the...
Nabu Press, 2010. — 604 p. — ISBN: 1148162887; ISBN13: 9781148162881. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and...
Penguin Classics, 1980. — 506 p. — ISBN: 0140443878; ISBN13: 9780140443875. When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three children: his...
Penguin Classics, 2007. — 405 p. — ISBN: 0140449639; ISBN13: 9780140449631. His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics. Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0199608377; ISBN13: 9780199608379. 'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and...
Penguin Classics, 2006. — 512 p. — ISBN: 0140442804; ISBN13: 9780140442809. The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention...
Content: "Nana" and the short stories "The Miller's Daughter," "Captain Burle," and "The Death of Olivier Bacaille" Nana Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. The Miller's Daughter A poignant tale in which Zola highlights the futility of war and the destruction it...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 320 p. Émile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, the son of a Venetian engineer and his French wife. He grew up in Aix-en-Provence where he made friends with Paul Cézanne. After an undistinguished school career and a brief period of dire poverty in Paris, Zola joined the newly founded publishing firm of Hachette which he left in 1866 to live by his...
Hesperus Press, 2013. — 84 p. — ISBN: 1843911884; ISBN13: 9781843911883. A wonderful collection of three surreal stories from French master Émile Zola given a fresh new translation Sixty-two-year-old Louis Roubieu sees his family's long-awaited prosperity as a reward rained upon him by God for years of arduous toil on the land. Yet it is the very abundance of God's rain,...
Duke Classics, 2012. — ISBN13: 9781620121207. The story of a girl trapped in an unhappy marriage to her first cousin so captivated the French writer Emile Zola that he explored it in multiple works, producing both a novel and a play based on the same core set of characters. The protagonist, Camille, becomes desperate and takes matters into her own hands, committing what may be...
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