The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) concerns the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the best-selling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to historical detail. The novel seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control. Often War and Peace, La Debacle skilfully integrates the narrative of events and the fictional lives of characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in French history.

La Debacle (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Ãmile Zola

Contemporary

Oxford University Press

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The Conquest of Plassans (Pocket Classics)

Sutton Publishing+ltd

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 twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. The incestuous affair of Renée Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renée’s financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and “the capital of the nineteenth century.” In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman’s spirit and a city’s soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world’s premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by “infernal intelligence.” In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who–explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelenting–always goes in for the kill.

The Kill (Modern Library Classics)

United States

Random House Publishing Group

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The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

revised tr by EA Vizetelly of LE VENTRE DE PARIS

Belly Of Paris (Old Edition)

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

World Literature

Sun & Moon Press

Here in its first translation in over a century, The Dream is a poignant exploration of the impossibility of love in the face of social constraints. Abandoned as a young child, Angélique finds a new home with Hubert and Hubertine, who bring her up into a life of purity. Increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, she creates a world where ancient legends come to life; she lives in a dream. Such innocence, however, is ill-preparation for the trials that life has to bring, and when her plans to marry are rejected out of hand by those stronger and more powerful than her simple family, she is dealt a blow that shatters not only her dream world but also her life. Novelist and critic Emile Zola is one of the foremost writers of 19th-century France as well as a founder of the Naturalist movement in literature.

The Dream (Les Rougon-Macquart)

Hesperus Press

347pages. poche. broché. Jacques, sans se retourner, de sa main droite, tâtonnante en arrière, avait pris le couteau. Il fixait sur Séverine ses yeux fous, il n'avait plus que le besoin de la jeter morte sur son dos. La porte d'épouvante s'ouvrait sur ce gouffre noir du sexe, l'amour jusque dans la mort, détruire pour posséder davantage. "Jacques, Jacques. Moi, mon Dieu! Pourquoi ? pourquoi ?" Et il abattit le poing, et le couteau lui cloua la question dans la gorge. Avait-elle crié ? il ne le sut jamais. A cette seconde passait l'express de Paris, si violent, si rapide que le plancher en trembla; et elle était morte, comme foudroyée dans cette tempête.

La BÃªte Humaine (Folio)

Genre Fiction

Gallimard]

Émile Zola (1840-1902), né à Paris, est un écrivain, journaliste et homme public français, considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme. C'est l'un des romanciers français les plus universellement populaires, l'un des plus publiés et traduits au monde, le plus adapté au cinéma et à la télévision. Sa vie et son oeuvre ont été étudiés dans le détail par la science historique. Sur le plan littéraire, il est principalement connu pour Les Rougon-Macquart, monumentale fresque romanesque en vingt volumes dépeignant la société française du second empire. Les dernières années de sa vie sont marquées par son engagement dans son époque, lors de l'affaire Dreyfus, dans laquelle il joue un r'le décisif par la publication du plus célèbre article de la presse française: J'Accuse.! (1898).

Au Bonheur Des Dames (World Classics)

GF-Flammarion

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La Debacle (Oxford World's Classics)

The Conquest of Plassans (Pocket Classics)

The Kill (Modern Library Classics)

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome

Belly Of Paris (Old Edition)

The Dream (Les Rougon-Macquart)

La BÃªte Humaine (Folio)

Au Bonheur Des Dames (World Classics)

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La Debacle (Oxford World's Classics)

The Conquest of Plassans (Pocket Classics)

The Kill (Modern Library Classics)

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome

Belly Of Paris (Old Edition)

The Dream (Les Rougon-Macquart)

La BÃªte Humaine (Folio)

Au Bonheur Des Dames (World Classics)

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