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The Belly of Paris
Émile Zola
‘Respectable people… What bastards!’ Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the ...
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The Bright Side of Life
Émile Zola and Andrew Rothwell (ed.)
‘Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.’ Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the ...
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The Conquest of Plassans
Émile Zola and Patrick McGuinness
‘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. ...
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Doctor Pascal
Émile Zola and Brian Nelson (ed.)
‘There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself’ Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in ...
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The Fortune of the Rougons
Émile Zola
He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.’ Set in the fictitious Provençal ...
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His Excellency Eugène Rougon
Émile Zola and Brian Nelson (ed.)
‘He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.’ His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart ...
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L'Assommoir
Émile Zola and Robert Lethbridge (ed.)
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged ...
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La Bête humaine
Émile Zola
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level ...
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La Débâcle: (reissue)
Émile Zola and Robert Lethbridge (ed.)
‘My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.’ The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject ...
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The Ladies' Paradise
Émile Zola
The Ladies’ Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the ...
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A Love Story
Émile Zola and Brian Nelson (ed.)
‘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 ...
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The Masterpiece
Émile Zola and Roger Pearson (ed.)
The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own ...
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Nana (2 ed.)
Émile Zola and Brian Nelson (ed.)
‘She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.’ Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually ...
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Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)
Émile Zola and Brian Nelson (ed.)
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.
The Sin of Abbé Mouret
Émile Zola
‘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 ...
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