Zola: 989 books

La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered...

'Abbé Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly...

Here is a true publishing event–the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction’s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola’s The Kill (La Curée) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in...

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola was originally published in France in 1867. It tells the story of a young woman who is unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt. Thérèse's husband, Camille, is sickly and selfish, and when the opportunity arises,...

'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern...

A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPE ‘Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text’ Daily Telegraph ‘[Adam Thorpe] brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task, which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving immediacy which the young...

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 Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together...

A wonderful collection of three surreal stories from French master Émile Zola given a fresh new translation   Sixty-two-year-old Louis Roubieu sees his family's long-awaited prosperity as a reward rained upon him by God for years of arduous toil on the land. Yet it is the very abundance...

A poignant tale in which Zola highlights the futility of war and the destruction it causes. The happiness and peace of the protagonists is wrecked when Prussian soldiers enter their village. Zola has excelled himself in the in-depth portrayal of human emotions and feelings. Intensely moving!

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. A short time before the book appeared M. Zola was interviewed upon the subject by his friend and...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. Novela sobre la naturaleza de la creación artística, sobre el amor, la amistad y sobre el fascinante y complejo alumbramiento del impresionismo, La obra es uno de los títulos más valientes y perdurables de la literatura del siglo XIX. Perteneciente...

«Digo lo que veo, narro sencillamente y dejo al moralista el cuidado de sacar lecciones de ello». Émile Zola. A los veinte años, huérfana y con dos hermanos a cuestas, Denise llega a París dispuesta a trabajar en la pañería de su tío Baudu. Pero corren tiempos difíciles, el pequeño...

La figura de Émile Zola ha pasado a la historia de la literatura no sólo como fundador y teórico del naturalismo, sino también como vigoroso narrador del ambiente social y político de su época. "La jauría" es la segunda de las novelas que forman el ciclo Rougon-Macquart, con el cual...

(París, 1840 - 1902) Novelista francés, principal figura del naturalismo literario. Hijo de Francesco Zola, ingeniero emigrante italiano, y de Émilie Aubert, proveniente de la pequeña burguesía francesa, pasó su infancia en Aix-en-Provence y estudió...