Series:

Litterature

125 total works

Cover of Germinal

Germinal

by Emile Zola

Published 1 December 1956
The novel's central character is ...tienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his previous job on the railways for assaulting a superior - he befriends the veteran miner Maheu, who finds him somewhere to stay and gets him a job pushing the carts down the pit. ...tienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a naïve youth; Zola's genetic theories come into play as ...tienne is presumed to have inherited his Macquart ancestors' traits of hotheaded impulsiveness and an addictive personality capable of exploding into rage under the influence of drink or strong passions.

Cover of L'Assommoir

L'Assommoir

by Emile Zola

Published 1 July 1951
Lantier and Gervaise are fresh from the south, making a new life in Paris. But Lantier soon succumbs to urban degeneracy and abandons her. Gervaise, marries Coupeau the roofer and strives to realise her dream of running her own laundry. Hardship, however, is never far away. The text is here accompanied by an introduction, notes, selected criticism, text summary and a chronology of Zola's life and times.

Cover of Les Trois Villes

Les Trois Villes

by Emile Zola

Published 3 October 2008

Cover of L'Oeuvre

L'Oeuvre

by Emile Zola

Published 20 February 1968

Cover of La Fortune Des Rougon

La Fortune Des Rougon

by Emile Zola

Published 1 August 1981

Cover of La terre

La terre

by Emile Zola

Published 16 April 1970

Cover of Nos Auteurs Dramatiques (Ed.1881)

Cover of Therese Raquin

Therese Raquin

by Emile Zola

Published 1 April 2012

Cover of Nana

Nana

by Emile Zola

Published December 1957
Nana tells the story of the rise of Nana Coupeau from a street prostitute to a high class cocotte (courtesan) during the final years of the Second French Empire. Through her performance in La blonde Venus, a fictional operetta, she attracts the attention of society and proceeds to destroy every man that she encounters. Nana is the ninth volume of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series and was published in 1880. The novel depicts the moral corruption that Zola believed was the cause of the downfall of the Second Empire.

Cover of La fortune des Rougon

La fortune des Rougon

by Emile Zola

Published 9 February 1971

Cover of Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées de Émile Zola 24-26. Les Quatre Évangiles. Travail

Cover of La Joie de Vivre: Les Rougon-Macquart

Cover of L'Attaque du Moulin: Drame Lyrique en Quatre Actes (Classic Reprint)

Cover of Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées de Émile Zola. Les Rougon-Macquart. Le Docteur Pascal

Cover of Contes À Ninon

Contes À Ninon

by Emile Zola

Published 19 June 2010

Cover of Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées de Émile Zola. T. 17 La Bête Humaine

Cover of Oeuvres Completes Illustrees de Emile Zola 1-20. Les Rougon-Macquart. Au Bonheur Des Dames

Cover of Les Romanciers Naturalistes: Balzac, Stendhal, Gustave Flaubert, (Ed.1881)

Cover of Le Ventre de Paris

Le Ventre de Paris

by Emile Zola

Published 1 January 1979

Cover of Nouveaux Contes à Ninon

Nouveaux Contes à Ninon

by Emile Zola

Published 22 November 2012