�Mile Zola: 389 books

Le cycle des Rougon-Macquart compte vingt romans qui tous racontent l'histoire d'un des membres de la même famille, sur cinq générations. Le cycle des Rougon-Macquart compte vingt romans qui racontent l'histoire d'une même famille, sur cinq générations. Les milieux sont divers, de l'ouvrier...

'I really don't understand how people can blame a priest so much, when he strays from the path.' The Sin of Abbé Mouret tells the compelling story of the young priest Serge Mouret. Striving after spiritual purity and sanctity, he lives a life of constant prayer, but his neglect of all physical...

'Everything revolved around their love. They were constantly bathed in a passion that they carried with them, around them, as though it were the only air they could breathe.' Hélène Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate...

La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered...

'Abbé Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly...

'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 achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern...

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. Novela sobre la naturaleza de la creación artística, sobre el amor, la amistad y sobre el fascinante y complejo alumbramiento del impresionismo, La obra es uno de los títulos más valientes y perdurables de la literatura del siglo XIX. Perteneciente...

Con "Naná", Zola se propuso hacer un estudio verdadero de las cortesanas de lujo, hastiado por el tratamiento engañoso que del tema se había estado haciendo. Consiguió, sin embargo, crear una nueva divinidad, un nuevo tipo de mujer fatal y una nueva belleza diabólica. En "Naná",...

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 from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'....

En 1893, le laboratoire Zola est à l'oeuvre. Ici, le phénomène choisi sera le mariage. A travers quatre cas (l'aristocratie, la haute bourgeoisie, les boutiquiers et les couches populaires), de l'obligation mondaine au contrat lucratif, de l'association sécurisante de deux bilans comptables à...

“FRUITFULNESS” is the first of a series of four works in which M. Zola proposes to embody what he considers to be the four cardinal principles of human life. These works spring from the previous series of The Three Cities: “Lourdes, ” “Rome, ” and “Paris, ” which dealt with the principles...

Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes et dossier) Le 13 janvier 1898, un article retentissant paraît dans le journal L’Aurore, intitulé « J’Accuse… ! ». Zola y prend nommément à partie les principaux responsables de la condamnation du capitaine Dreyfus. Il n’ignore pas qu’il...

This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the...