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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 13

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers... (more)
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  Thérèse Raquin

  by Émile Zola

  In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. Thérèse Raquin caused... (more)
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 9

  Nana

  by Émile Zola

  Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was a perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana--the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir--is now rendered in racy, stylish English.
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 7

  L'Assommoir

  or Drunkard, or The Dram Shop, or Gervaise

  by Émile Zola

  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. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor.. L'Assommoir was a... (more)
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 11

  The Ladies' Paradise

  by Émile Zola

  The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in the... (more)
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  J'accuse

  by Émile Zola

  Émile Zola, né à Paris le 2 avril 1840, mort à Paris le 29 septembre 1902, est un écrivain, journaliste et homme public français, considéré comme le chef de file du naturalisme.C’est l'un des romanciers français les plus universellement populaires, l'un des plus publiés et traduits au monde. Ses romans ont connu de très nombreuses adaptations au cinéma et à la télévision. Sa vie et son œuvre ont fait l'objet de... (more)
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  The Painted Girls

  by Cathy Marie Buchanan

  A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant... (more)
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  Collected Works of Emile Zola

  This beautiful volume, copyright 1928, contains an anthology of the great works of Emile Zola. Included are: Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, The Death of Olivier Becaille, Jacques Damour, The Inundation, Nantas, Coqueville, Nais Micoulin, Angeline, Madame Neigeon, A Love Episode, L'Assommoir, and The Mysteries of Marseilles.
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 17

  La Bête Humaine

  by Émile Zola

  One of Zola's most violent works, this novel is on one level a tale of murder and possession, and on another a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. It evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, and a society hurtling towards the future.
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 3

  The Belly of Paris

  by Émile Zola

  From Wikipedia:Le Ventre de Paris (1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les Halles, the enormous, busy central market of 19th Century Paris. Les Halles, rebuilt in cast iron and glass during the Second Empire was a landmark of modernity in the city, the wholesale and retail center of a thriving food industry. Le Ventre de Paris... (more)
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  Literary Classics

  Truth

  by Émile Zola

  Based on his experiences with the infamous Dreyfus case, this powerful last novel by Emile Zola about the scape-goating of a Jewish schoolteacher is a chilling depiction of anti-Semitism fully embedded in European society and an eerie presentiment of the Holocaust that would sweep across the Continent only forty years later. But this is not the whole story, for Zola also brilliantly demonstrates how truth, though... (more)
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  The Penguin Book of Horror Stories

  by J. A. Cuddon

  Here are the depths of fear and darkness, the furthest limits of agony in mind and body. Born in the 18th century, the horror story produced a literature of terror filled with werewolves and vampires, and which borrowed many elements from its sister genre, the ghost story.
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  Les Rougon-Macquart: Book 18

  Money (Pocket Classics Series)

  by Émile Zola

  From the Rougon-Macquart Series: Money (L'Argent): After a disastrous speculation, Aristide Saccard was forced to sell his mansion and to cast about for means of creating a fresh fortune. Chance made him acquainted with Hamelin, an engineer whose residence in the East had suggested to him financial schemes which at once attracted the attention of Saccard. With a view to financing these schemes the Universal Bank... (more)
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  The Death Of Olivier Becaille

  by Emile Zola

  It was on a Saturday, at six in the morning, that I died after a three days' illness...
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  Nana and Other Stories

  by Emile Zola

  Ever since this morning people have been dreeing me with Nana. I've met more than twenty people, and it's Nana here and Nana there! What do I know? Am I acquainted with all the light ladies in Paris? Nana is an invention of Bordenave's! It must be a fine one!"
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  O pagina de dragoste

  by Émile Zola

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  Testamento del Cosmos (Spanish Edition)

  by Rolando Hernandez

  Es de fisica teorico cuantico y humanista, contiene la tan anhelada unificacion, y una completa teoria, imposible de igualar, 4ta y 9na dimensiones, la verdadera posicion de la tierra, y sus derivados problemas como el tsunami, el destino de todos los ciclones, la capa de ozono, los egipcios y su conocimiento, el por que el 2012, todo tiene que ver, la alta elevacion de las temperaturas, que estan llevando al... (more)
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  Das Paradies der Damen (German Edition)

  by Emile Zola

  Bei diesem Werk handelt es sich um eine urheberrechtsfreie Ausgabe. Der Kauf dieser Kindle-Edition beinhaltet die kostenlose, drahtlose Lieferung auf Ihren Kindle oder Ihre Kindle-Apps.