Émile Zola

  • The Kill: La Curee

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    The Kill (La Cur馥) is the second volume in Zola’s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris – the capital of modernity – as the centre of Zola’s narrative w… [more below]

  • Nana

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    ‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’

    Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic hig

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    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Zola, ?mile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: June 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0198814267
    • Language: English
  • The Conquest of Plassans

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    ‘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 Fran?is Mouret in particular. Faujas and his

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  • Pot Luck

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    Pot Luck, Zola’s most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola rev… [more below]

  • Money

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    ‘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 on

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    • Series: Oxford Worlds Classics
    • Author: Zola, ?mile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: March 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 199608377
    • Language: English
  • Doctor Pascal

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    “There’s something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself…”

    Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rura… [more below]

    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Zola, Émile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: November 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0198746164
    • Language: English
  • Earth

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    ‘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

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    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Zola, Émile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: June 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 0199677875
    • Language: English
  • Germinal

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    Zola’s masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola’s death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom fro… [more below]

  • Germinal

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    The thirteenth novel in ?mile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.

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    • Series: Penguin Classics
    • Author: Zola, ?mile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: May 25 2004
    • ISBN10: 0140447423
    • Language: English
  • The Masterpiece

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    The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. … [more below]

  • Thérèse Raquin

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    Th?r?se Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola’s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters,… [more below]

  • The Fortune of the Rougons

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    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 pa… [more below]

  • The Assommoir

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    b ‘in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ /b

    In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a p

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    • Series: Oxford World’s Classics
    • Author: Zola, ?mile
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: December 01 2021
    • ISBN10: 019882856X
    • Language: English
  • The Ladies’ Paradise

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    The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The stor… [more below]

  • La Bête Humaine

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    La B?te humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a comp… [more below]

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