Émile Zola
1) Nana
5) Fruitfulness
7) The Dream
9) L'Assommoir
10) The Downfall
11) A Love Episode
12) Truth
13) Theresa Raquin
14) Lourdes
15) The Flood
Émile Zola was the most prominent French novelist of the late nineteenth century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which permeate his monumental 20-novel series 'Les Rougon-Macquart'. Recognised in his lifetime as one of the greatest novelists of his era, Zola was also as a man of action, a defender of truth and justice, and a champion of the poor and persecuted. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Zola's
...17) Rome
18) La Bête Humaine
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
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