“emile zola”

Here in a single volume are the Works of Emile Zola, the celebrated French novelist and critic. Born in paris in 1840, Zola worked in an excise office and a publishing house and as a journalist before rising to fame as a writer. His pieces, at once sensual and humorous, brought him notoriety as well... More

This controversial novel, set in the art world of Paris, has been read as an attack on the Impressionist painters who had been Zola's friends... More

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, ... More

This is the first volume in the Rougon-Macquart series. This series brought Zola literary fame and is considered his life work. It took 25 years to finish the 20 volumes. The idea for writing the social history of a family encompassing several volumes probably came from his reading the works of Balz... More

He was growing excited, full of anguish, and superb. It was his bereavement, his heart wound, which thus exasperated him, the great blow which had felled him for a moment, but against which he again rose erect, defying grief, and stubborn in his stoic belief in an omnipotent God, who was the master ... More