Emile Zola

The tenth novel in the "Rougon-Macquart" series by Émile Zola, "Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)" was first published in serially format in the periodical "Le Gaulois" between January and April 1882. The title of the work, "Pot-Bouille," is a 19th-century French slang term for a large cooking pot used for preparing stews. It is a term that really has no direct translation in English. The title of the novel which recounts the activities of the residents of...

This is one of the novels of anticlerical trilogy of the author “Three Cities”. It was written in 1894. The French city Lourdes-is a very popular pilgrimage center in Europe. The drama of the character of the novel abbot Piere Froman, who is looking for justice, is an aspect of criticism of mark system that opens the door to accommodation with it. The abbot removes his cassock, and his sons serve as evangelists of reform.

Work (1901) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the second installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Work was the last of Zola's novels to be published during his lifetime. Combining his trademark naturalist style with an interest in Charles Fourier's theory of socialist utopianism, Zola crafts a story of hardship and...

The third novel in Zola's twenty-volume series entitled Les Rougon-Macquart, this story revolves around and within the 21-acre market Les Halles Centrales of Paris. The starving scholar Florent has escaped his unwarranted exile on Devil's Island, and he is alternately entranced and disgusted by his refuge in The belly of Paris. Zola describes the market and Florent's experiences in the midst of it with his characteristically captivating comprehension,...

Theresa Raquin follows life of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in many ways is deeply selfish. Theresa's husband, Camille, is sickly and egocentric, and when the opportunity arises, Theresa enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent.

Truth (1903) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the third installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Truth was the last of Zola's novels to be published when it appeared the year after his death. Combining his trademark naturalist style with aspects of his experience advocating on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew...

Une édition de référence de J'accuse d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « Voilà donc, monsieur le Président, les faits qui expliquent comment une erreur judiciaire a pu être commise ; et les preuves morales, la situation de fortune de Dreyfus, l'absence de motifs, son continuel cri d'innocence, achèvent de le montrer comme une victime des extraordinaires imaginations du commandant du Paty de...

Extrait: " - O allez-vous, jeunes gens, o allez-vous, étudiants, qui courez en bandes par les rues, manifestant au nom de vos colères et de vos enthousiasmes, éprouvant l'impérieux besoin de jeter publiquement le cri de vos consciences indignées? Allez-vous protester contre quelque abus du pouvoir, a-t-on offensé le besoin de vérité et d'équité, brûlant encore dans vos âmes neuves, ignorantes des accommodements politiques et des lâchetés...

Extrait: "Le moulin du père Merlier, par cette belle soirée d'été, était en grande fête. Dans la cour, on avait mis trois table, placées bout à bout, et qui attendaient les convives. Tout le pays savait qu'on devait fiancer, ce jour-là, la fille Merlier, Françoise, avec Dominique, un garçon qu'on accusait de fainéantise, mais que les femmes, à trois lieues à la ronde, regardaient avec des yeux luisants, tant il avait bon air..."

Thérèse Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary magazine, Thérèse Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous content and unsparing vision of human sexuality and violence. Thérèse Raquin effectively launched Zola's career as a leading practitioner of literary naturalism, and has since been adapted countless...