Émile Zola
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Zola's La Terre (The Earth) proved highly controversial on publication in 1887 and still retains the power to shock. It follows the fortunes of the Fouan family in the years leading up to the Franco-Prussian War. Old Fouan, the patriarch, draws up a legal contract to divide his farmland between his three children in exchange for an allowance that will support him and his wife through a comfortable retirement. Against a backdrop of rural deprivation,...
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Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville on the wild Normandy coast. Her presence enlivens the household and Pauline is the only one who can ease Chanteau's gout-ridden agony. Her love of life contrasts with the insularity and pessimism that infects the family, especially Lazare, for whom she...
83) The Gin Palace
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This work is one of the most starkly realistic dissections of men and women possessed by sensuality and alcoholism ever attempted.
84) Viaje circular
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El autor aborda la historia de una pareja que se ha casado hace pocos días y que inmediatamente después, sin luna de miel ni un tiempo para poder gozar de su nuevo estado, comienzan a trabajar en el negocio de la Sra. Larivière que es la madre de la novia y viuda del Sr. Larivière. Esta mujer, es por demás despótica y no le permite a la pareja ni un instante de regocijo, hasta que el padre del muchacho aparece con unos pasajes para viajar a...
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Les cinq dernières années de la vie d'Émile Zola sont marquées par un engagement sans relâche dans l'affaire Dreyfus, alors que l'auteur est au faîte de sa renommée littéraire. LA VÉRITÉ EN MARCHE rassemble les principaux articles écris par Emile Zola sur l' l'Affaire Dreyfus dont la fameuse lettre au Président de la République Félix Faure, parue dans l'Aurore le 13 janvier 1898 sous le titre « J'Accuse... ! » L'article va relancer...
86) Yo acuso
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Este es el dossier, reunido y comentado por el propio Zola, de sus polémicos escritos relacionados con el caso Dreyfus, que culminaron con el archinombrado pero poco conocido Yo acuso. Cuando en 1894 se descubrió que alguien estaba traicionando al ejército francés, un fraudulento consejo de guerra condenó a un oficial judío, el capitán Dreyfus. Indignado ante esta injusticia, Zola intervino con la única arma de que dispone un intelectual:...
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Das eintönige Leben des schüchternen Julien wird jäh durch den Anblick der schönen Thérèse am Fenster gegenüber aufgewühlt. In Liebe entbrannt versucht er, sie mit seinem Flötenspiel zu gewinnen. Endlich scheint Thérèse ihn zu erhören, doch der Preis, den Julien dafür zu zahlen hat, ist hoch ...
88) Nana
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Living in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III's France is a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana. For her, rich men give up their fortunes and honor; poor men give up their mates and even their lives.
89) Germinal
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Germinal, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However,...
91) Thérèse Raquin
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them for ever. Therese Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and brought...
92) 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. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence....
93) The beast within
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The Beast Within (1890) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The seventeenth of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens raised by the same mother. Spanning the entirety of the French Second Empire, Zola provides a sweeping portrait of change that refuses to shy away from controversy and truth as it gets to...
94) Therese Raquin
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When adulteress Thérèse and her lover Laurent murder her sickly husband Camille, the ghost of Camille haunts them after their marriage, transforming their passion for each other into hatred.
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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 offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor's interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; and churchgoing women find their...
96) La bête humaine
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Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris to Le Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge and repression....
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Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zola's best novels. Set in the newly built food markets of Paris, it is a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce.
Having just escaped from prison after being wrongfully accused, young Florent arrives at Paris' food market, Les Halles, half starved, surrounded by all he can't have, and indignant at his world, which he...
98) Thérèse Raquin
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Based on the classic 1867 novel and play by French writer Émile Zola. The story of a young woman, Thérèse, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille. She begins a passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent. Thérèse and Laurent will go to any lengths to be together, but their actions may haunt them forever.
99) The Paradise
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Set amidst the Victorian splendor of Britain's first department store, The Paradise is a rags-to-riches story of a young girl who falls in love with the intoxicating charms of the modern world. As Denise finds her feet as a lowly shop girl, she must navigate her way through power struggles, intrigues, and affairs. When the shop's dashing and reckless owner, John Moray, spots her talents, she knows she can use this opportunity to rise to great things....
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The series begins a year after the dramatic events that saw Moray declare his love for Denise and lose The Paradise after breaking off his engagement to Katherine. The spurned Katherine has since married Tom Weston with a troubled history. Although she seems to be starting her life anew, her passion for Moray threatens to draw her back into a love triangle, competing with Denise. Moray and Denise are still at the forefront of fashion and innovation,...