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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Au Bonheur des Dames Emile Zola publié en 1883, prépublié dès décembre 1882 dans Gil Blas, le onzième volume de la suite romanesque les Rougon-Macquart. À travers une histoire sentimentale, le roman entraîne le lecteur dans le monde des grands magasins, l'une des innovations du Second Empire (1852-1870) ...Show more
Dead Men Tell No Tales and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmée Zola
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Category: Fiction
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of `Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of `Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display t ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, "Germinal" is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelli ...Show more
I Accuse! by Emile Zola
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In January 1898 French novelist and critic Emile Zola played an important part in the defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew unjustly accused of selling military secrets to Germany. On the front page of a Paris newspaper, the author published a terrific denunciation of French government officia ...Show more
Money by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hameli ...Show more
The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories by Douglas (TRN) Emile; Parmee Zola
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Category: Fiction
Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in th ...Show more
The Beast Within by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 ab ...Show more
The Dream by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction
Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town's towering cathedral and learns her parents' trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics
Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer societyA obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratificationA The Ladies'Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of the young De ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Masterpiece by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salo ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere 'human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Emp ...Show more