Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had been to defend a wrongly convicted man, in what became known as the Dreyfus Affair. Fleeing the French state with just hours to spare he ended up living in the suburbs of south London [...]
Controversy surrounded Zola during his life-time, and controversy has followed him ever since. No other French writer was so violently attacked by contemporaries, none had a more devoted following. This high priest of Naturalism scandalized France by the frankness of his treatment of the seamier sid[...]
Once upon a time, a teenaged Kate Winslet ("The Reader," "Titanic," "Revolutionary Road") received a gift that would leave a lasting impression: a copy of Emile Zola's classic "Th?r?se Raquin." Six Academy Award nominations and one Best Actress award later, she steps behind the microphone to perform[...]
Once upon a time, a teenaged Kate Winslet ("The Reader," "Titanic," "Revolutionary Road") received a gift that would leave a lasting impression: a copy of Emile Zola s classic "Therese Raquin." Six Academy Award nominations and one Best Actress award later, she steps behind the microphone to perform[...]
This eBook features the unabridged text of 'The Ladies' Paradise' from the bestselling edition of 'The Complete Works of Emile Zola'. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior[...]
Germinal (1885) is the thirteenth in Emile Zola's cycle of twenty novels about the Rougon-Macquart dynasty. It tells the story of Etienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, who arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling condition[...]
Encapsulating, with atypically, luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification, "The Ladies Delight" depicts the beginnings of capitalist economy through the mechanism of a new economic entity: the department store. The novel tells the st[...]