Book 18

La Curee

by Emile Zola

Published 31 December 1974

Book 19

La debacle

by Emile Zola

Published 1 January 1967
'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'
Emile Zola

The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune...Read more

Book 20


Book 21

La conquete de Plassans

by Emile Zola

Published 1 January 1967

Book 33

La fortune des Rougon

by Emile Zola

Published 9 February 1971

Book 34

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...Read more

Book 46

Lourdes

by Emile Zola

Published 30 September 1993
In this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the master French realist has created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. Based on his own trip to the fabled grotto, the novel follows...Read more

Book 48

Pot-Bouille

by Emile Zola

Published 14 March 1972
Regarded as one of the best novels of the 19th century, Pot-Bouille strips away the facades of middle-class life and hypocrisy in a manner which outraged contemporary France, inciting scandal and court cases. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it.

Book 53

La Confession de Claude

by Emile Zola

Published 28 August 2013

Book 55

Les Mystères de Marseille

by Emile Zola

Published 3 February 2010

Book 58

Le Naturalisme au theatre

by Emile Zola

Published 19 July 2012

Book 68

Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

by Emile Zola

Published 1 January 1924

Book 70


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Chroniques Politiques

by Emile Zola

Published 17 October 2018