Auteur: ?mile Zola

‘I really don’t understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.’ The Sin of Abb Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spir …

‘I really don’t understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.’ The Sin of Abb Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spir …

‘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 rural …

‘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 rural …

‘He loved power for power’s sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.’ His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola’s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A po …

‘He loved power for power’s sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.’ His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola’s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A po …

‘Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.’Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, P …

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 symbolise the call for freedom fr …

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of …

‘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 …

‘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 …

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 symbolise the call for freedom fr …

‘He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.’Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Pl …

‘He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.’Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Pl …

‘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 Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and hi …

‘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 Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and hi …

‘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 …

‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ Emile Zola The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debcle (1892) takes as its subject …

‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ Emile Zola The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debcle (1892) takes as its subject …

‘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 hi …

‘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 hi …

‘in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pitta …

‘in this life, even if you don’t ask for much you still end up with bugger all!’ In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pitta …

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 ci …

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 ci …

‘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 …