'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and...
'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...
In The Dream, the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, Zola blends mysticism and fairy tale with naturalism as an orphan girl falls in love with a nobleman...
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...
A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Helene Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's...
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Dans les halles grouillantes de Paris, le cœur battant de la ville, se croisent les destins des marchands, des ouvriers et des rêveurs. Émile Zola nous plonge au sein de ce marché foisonnant...
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Zola est entré partout, chez les ouvriers et chez les bourgeois. Chez les premiers, selon lui, tout est visible. La misère, comme le plaisir, saute aux yeux. Chez les seconds, tout...
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A Plassans, berceau provençal de sa famille, tandis que le Second Empire est tombé depuis deux ans, Pascal Rougon vit auprčs de sa ničce Clotilde qu?il a élevée et qu?il adore. Ce sont...
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'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...
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When Pauline Quenu is taken to the seaside to live with her relatives, her love of life contrasts with the pessimism which infects the family. This is the twelfth novel in Zola's...
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'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things. ' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator...
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'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret...
The Sin of Abbe Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves...
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His Excellency Eugene Rougon is the sixth in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Here, the novel presents a detailed picture of court and political circles during the...
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Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the...
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'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were...
Dvaadvacetiletá Gervaisa neměla v životě štěstí. Otec jejích dvou dětí, Lantier, ji opustil s milenkou a ona zůstala sama. Začne ale usilovně pracovat, aby si zařídila vysněnou vlastní...
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial...
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In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, which they claimed to be proof of espionage on...
Au Bonheur des Dames follows widower Octave Mouret, owner of Au Bonheur des Dames, whose retail innovations and store expansions threaten the existence of all the neighborhood shops,...
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