Emile: 1072 books

Extrait du livre:  Dans la chaleur de l'ardente après-midi de juillet, la salle, aux volets soigneusement clos, était pleine d'un grand calme. Il ne venait, des trois fenêtres, que de minces flèches de lumière, par les fentes des vieilles boiseries ;...

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Émile François Zola ( 2 April 1840 29 September 1902) is one of the greatest writers of the 19th century, and one of Frances best known citizens. In his life, Zola was the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Around...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : The servants at the Hotel de Chalusse, one of the most magnificent mansions in the Rue de Courcelles in Paris, were assembled in the porter’s lodge, a little building comprising...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : There is not, perhaps, in all Paris, a quieter street than the Rue St. Gilles in the Marais, within a step of the Place Royale. No carriages there; never a crowd. Hardly is the silence...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : The dark night allowed these only to see a peasant in his shirt sleeves, and bareheaded, who belabored a large gray mare, on which he rode bareback, with his heels and a huge stick. This...

This book is among the best-selling popular classics "bestseller". Here is an extract of this book : “The cold,” remarked she to her husband, who was busily engaged in replenishing the stove with fuel, “is enough to frighten the wits out of a Polar bear. In this kind of weather...

'GERMINAL' was published in 1885, after occupying Zola during the previous year. In accordance with his usual custom--but to a greater extent than with any other of his books except La Débâcle--he accumulated material beforehand. For six months he travelled about the coal-mining district...

This file includes three 19th century novels about prostitutes: Maggie by Stephen Crane and (in English translation) L'Assommir and Nana by Zola.

A tense, psychological thriller set upon the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century, "The Beast Within (La Bête Humaine)", Émile Zola's 1890 novel, is the story of Jacques Lantier, an engine driver on the railroad and the titular "Beast." Lantier is driven mad by the desire to kill...

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 Curée) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in...