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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

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 Curee) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the a... More

Large Format for easy reading. Major work from the influential French novelist, one of the most important examples of the literary school of naturalism. ... More

The French novelist's classic study of a prostitute's dissolute existence and spiritual disintegration reflects his concern with the influence of heredity and environment... More

Nana, brought up in the slums of Paris has a brief career as an untalented actress before tasting success as a courtesan. Her sexuality appeals to many rich and powerful men whose fortunes she heartily plunders.Emile Zola (1840-1902) born to a French mother and an Italian father. Zola earned fame a... More

In these three short stories, Emile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment--romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Therese commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will ... More