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1) Germinal
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English
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During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.
2) Nana
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Rougon-Macquart ; 9
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Français
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Une édition de référence de Nana d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Un murmure grandit, comme un soupir qui se gonflait. Quelques mains battirent, toutes les jumelles étaient fixées sur Vénus. Peu à peu, Nana avait pris possession du public, et maintenant chaque homme la subissait. Le rut qui montait d'elle, ainsi que d'une bête en folie, s'était épandu toujours davantage, emplissant la...
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"I believe that the future of humanity lies in the progress of reason through science. Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle - is a pivotal tale of science vs faith. The novel opens in 1872, as the reign of Napoleon III comes to an end. Pascal Rougon is the son of Pierre and Felicite, whose rise to power in the town of Plassans was described in the first novel in the series, The Fortune of the Rougons. Pascal,...
4) Nana
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Living in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III's France is a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana. For her, rich men give up their fortunes and honor; poor men give up their mates and even their lives.
5) L'assommoir
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Regarded by critics as one of the highest pinnacles of achievement in Emile Zola's literary career, L'Assommoir (best translated as "the cheap liquor store") offers an unflinching look at alcoholism among the working class in nineteenth-century France. Part of a larger, 20-volume story cycle that spanned Zola's entire career, L'Assommoir was the novel that initially propelled the writer to fame and fortune.
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English
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The fourteenth novel in a twenty book series collectively entitled, "Les Rougon-Macquart, L'Œuvre" was first translated into English in 1886, the title having since been rendered "The Masterpiece". Set in France's Second Empire, the story of naturalist painter Claude Lantier is believed to be a highly fictionalized account of Zola's friendship with the painter Paul Cézanne. The fictional artist of Zola's Bohemian world, Lantier, strives to complete...
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Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1969]
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English
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The Silent Killer was written for anyone who battles with anxieties, emotional depression, oppression, mood swings, and many other disorders that come with many different types of complications on a day-to-day basis that often overwhelm one trying to balance their day-to-day life. This book is dedicated to the sufferers who are now, or have in the past, enduring the Silent Killer symptoms that cause great discomfort and disruption to their lives.
Having...
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Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However,...
11) La curée
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Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence de La Curée d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Renée, dans ses satiétés, éprouva une singulière sensation de désirs inavouables, à voir ce paysage qu'elle ne reconnaissait plus, cette nature si artistement mondaine, et dont la grande nuit frissonnante faisait un bois sacré, une de ces clairières idéales au fond desquelles les anciens dieux cachaient leurs amours...
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Rougon-Macquart ; 11
Publisher
Fasquelle
Pub. Date
[1984]
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Français
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Une édition de référence de Au Bonheur des Dames d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Dans le pan coupé donnant sur la place Gaillon, la haute porte, toute en glace, montait jusqu'à l'entresol, au milieu d'une complication d'ornements, chargés de dorures. Deux figures allégoriques, deux femmes riantes, la gorge nue et renversée, déroulaient l'enseigne: Au Bonheur des dames. Puis, les vitrines...
13) La terre
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Publisher
Fasquelle
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
Français
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La Terre est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1887, le quinzième volume de la série des Rougon-Macquart.
Sans doute l’un des plus violents, Zola y dresse en effet un portrait féroce du monde paysan de la fin du xixe siècle, âpre au gain, dévoré d’une passion pour la terre qui peut aller jusqu’au crime. Tout l’ouvrage est empreint d’une bestialité propre à choquer les lecteurs de l’époque, les accouplements d’animaux
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Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon...
15) The kill
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The incestuous affair of Renee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renee's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris swiftly becoming a modern metropolis and "the capital of the nineteenth century." In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair.
16) The dream
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"Emile Zola's novel Le Réve (1888) is a love idyll concerning a poor embroideress, Angelique, and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family, set against the backdrop of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France." "A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels, it may at first seem a strange interlude between La Terre and La Bete Humaine in the twenty-volume sequence known as the Rougon-Macquart Novels.".
"However,...
17) The beast within
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In seventeenth-century France, Roubaud is consumed by jealousy upon finding out a secret from his wife's past and together they murder the man involved only to be seen by Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee, who is plagued with homicidal rage each time he sees a woman."--
20) The Downfall
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Duke Classics
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English
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"The Downfall (La Débâcle)" is Émile Zola's 1892 novel, the penultimate in the Rougon-Macquart series, which is a story set against the background of the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune, events that led to the end of the reign of Napoléon III and the Second French Empire in 1870. The novel follows Jean Macquart, a corporal in the French army corps, as they are driven back by the Prussians deeper and deeper into France....
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