Zola: 989 books

Dans les affreux jours de trouble moral que nous traversons, au moment où la conscience publique paraît s’obscurcir, c’est à toi que je m’adresse, France, à la nation, à la patrie ! Chaque matin, en lisant dans les journaux ce que tu sembles penser...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. During the severe winter of 1860 the river Oise was frozen over and the plains of Lower Picardy were covered with deep snow. On Christmas Day, especially, a heavy squall from the north-east had almost buried the...

Among these men also he divined coldness, in fact almost hostility. Pillerault, however, very tall, very thin, with spasmodic gestures, and a nose like a sabre-blade set in the bony face of a knight-errant, habitually displayed the familiarity of a gambler—the gambler who makes recklessness a principle,...

The narrative that circles around a French officer and reflects the disciplined life led by military men. However there are human weaknesses that overcome the religiously executed drillings. A great illustration of the weak impulses that one cannot control. Engrossing!

'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.' Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their...

Out in the street the young man, deafened by the cabs, jostled by the passers-by, eould not help remarking that this lady was very beautiful, but that she did not seem particularly amiable. On the black and muddy pavement, the bright windows of freshly-painted shops, flaring with gas, east broad rays...

Elegant und schillernd ist die Welt eines Pariser Kaufhauses des 19. Jahrhundert. Die Gesellschaft erliegen der rauschaften Konsumwelt. Nicht kritiklos wird der Niedergang des Einzelhandels und eines ganzen Stadtteils beschrieben: Während die kleinen Händler ohnmächtig sind, feiert der skrupellose...

Der zweite Teil der Rougon-Macquart Reihe schildert die Dekadenz der Parsier Gesellschaft Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts und erzählt vom Aufstieg des korrupten und abgefeimten Aristide Rougon.

※一場源自巴黎美食的革命，宛如世界的縮影， 人們對於美食的欲望，竟也蔓延成社會各階層的種種不公義？ ※法國大文豪左拉最知名的作品之一，繁體中文版首譯， 被譽為近代第一本美食小說及經典！ ──最具法式誘惑的美食象徵代表，名符其實流動的饗宴 ※提到巴黎絕對不可忽略的城市之書 ──最常被引用、散見於法國旅遊、文化、美食、歷史等相關題材的書或文章。 小說場景設定在十九世紀末，法國首都巴黎市中心最熱鬧、活絡的食品大型貿易市場──巴黎大堂，現今磊阿勒區。在蒙托格伊大街上可見熟食、蔬果、乾貨、生鮮攤遍布的情景，五味雜陳。卻也因為各式新潮店商，成了最多巴黎年輕人聚集流連之處，燈紅酒綠（近似台北的西門町或五分埔與迪化街的複合體）。前身是傳統市集的巴黎中央市場，西元一一八三年國王腓力二世擴建巴黎市場，為來自全國各地出售商品商人建立一個遮蔽之處。在十九世紀五○年代，興建了大型的玻璃和鐵構建築體，被稱為巴黎的「肚腹」，也就是巴黎之胃。 故事發生在西元一八五一年的十二月拿破崙政變中，蒙冤流放到魔鬼島的主角佛羅鴻（Florent...

Ce matin-là, dans le petit pavillon à la lisière des bois, où ils étaient installés depuis trois semaines, Mathieu se hâtait, pour prendre à Janville le train de sept heures, qui chaque jour le ramenait à Paris. Il était six heures...