ÉMILE - Libros y biografía

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History...

Germinal Emile Zola - Considered by Andr Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern...

His Masterpiece Emile Zola - L'uvre ('The Work' - often published in English under the title 'His Masterpiece') is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola. The work in question...

This volume, as indicated by the title, is designed to show the way to the beginner, to satisfy and more especially to excite his initial curiosity. It affords an adequate idea of the march of facts and...

IN submitting to the English-speaking public this second volume of M. Zola's trilogy "Lourdes, Rome, Paris," I have no prefatory remarks to offer on behalf of the author, whose views on Rome, its past,...

La Débâcle is a novel by Émile Zola published in 1892, the penultimate in les Rougon-Macquart series. The story is set against the background of the political and military events that ended the reign...

Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, The Death of Olivier Becaille Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French...

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History...

L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism...

The book's stirring opening happens on the eve of the coup d'état, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night. Zola then spends the...

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History...

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, which was to tell "The Natural and Social History...

His Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius....

BEFORE perusing this work, it is as well that the reader should understand M. Zola's aim in writing it, and his views—as distinct from those of his characters—upon Lourdes, its Grotto, and its cures....

At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these...

Abbe Mouret's Transgression Emile Zola - "Abbé Mouret's Transgression" (La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola's tales; it is that in which fantasy...

Émile Zola's 'The Ladies' Paradise' is a compelling novel that delves into the world of 19th-century Parisian department stores, exploring themes of consumer culture, capitalism, and the evolving role...

Émile Souvestre's 'An Attic Philosopher in Paris Complete' offers a captivating glimpse into the life of an attic-dweller in Paris, highlighting the struggles and triumphs of the working class in 19th...

Émile Zola's 'Doctor Pascal' is a riveting novel that delves into the themes of heredity, science, family dynamics, and societal expectations. Set in provincial France, the book follows the life of Doctor...

In Émile Zola's masterpiece 'Germinal', the reader is transported to the coal mines of northern France in the 19th century, where a group of impoverished miners revolt against the oppressive working conditions....

In 'His Excellency [Son Exc. Eugène Rougon]' by Émile Zola, the reader is transported to the political intrigue of Second Empire France. The novel vividly depicts the corruption and power struggles within...

Émile Zola's 'His Masterpiece' is a groundbreaking novel that delves into the gritty and realistic world of 19th-century Parisian society. Known for his naturalistic approach, Zola paints a vivid portrait...

WITH the present work M. Zola completes the "Trilogy of the Three Cities," which he began with "Lourdes" and continued with "Rome"; and thus the adventures and experiences of Abbe Pierre Froment, the...

BEFORE perusing this work, it is as well that the reader should understand M. Zola's aim in writing it, and his views—as distinct from those of his characters—upon Lourdes, its Grotto, and its cures....

In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it. A religious system may be said to be the...

In 'Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille)', Émile Zola meticulously dissects the lives of the residents of a Parisian apartment complex, exposing the scandalous and hypocritical nature of the bourgeois society. Written...

In Émile Zola's 'The Conquest of Plassans', the reader is taken on a journey through a small French town controlled by a tightly-knit group of individuals whose power dynamics are disrupted by the arrival...

In 'The Fortune of the Rougons' by Émile Zola, readers are transported to the turbulent social and political landscape of mid-19th century France. Zola's realistic and naturalistic style brings to life...

In Émile Zola's novel, 'The Joy of Life' [La joie de vivre], the reader is immersed in the rural French countryside and introduced to the protagonist, Pauline Quenu, as she navigates life and love. Zola's...

In "The Monomaniac" (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola, the reader is plunged into the dark underbelly of human nature through the lens of a psychological thriller. Zola's naturalistic and gritty writing...