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1) Germinal
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Originally published in serial form in 1884 to 1885, "Germinal" is Émile Zola's realistic depiction of the coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s. In this faithful translation from the original French by Havelock Ellis, the story centers on Étienne Lantier, a young migrant worker who arrives at the coalmining town of Montsou in search of work. Set against a backdrop of extreme poverty and oppression, "Germinal" is the story of the idealistic...
2) Nana
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Rougon-Macquart volume 9
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We first meet Nana in the Variety Theatre, where the captivating eighteen-year-old is appearing in the lead role of a musical-even though she can't act or sing. "Nana has something that makes up for everything else," the theater owner explains, and he's right. Instead of booing her off the stage, the crowd howls with admiration. She has disrobed by the third act, and her career as a femme fatale is off to a sensational start. Nana crawls out of the...
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Rougon-Macquart volume 11
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Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However,...
4) L'Assommoir
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The story of Gervaise Macquart, running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry in one of the seedier areas of the city. The novel considered one of Zola's masterpieces, a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris. It established Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.
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The Fortune of the Rougons (1871) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The first of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens raised by the same mother. Spanning the entirety of the French Second Empire, Zola provides a sweeping portrait of change that refuses to shy away from controversy and truth as it gets...
6) Rome
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Le roman “Rome" est inclus dans la série “Trois villes". A Rome, les lecteurs peuvent voir la beauté de cette ville: rues étonnantes, monuments antiques. Tout rappelle la grandeur passée de Rome, sa gloire. Mais cette grandeur a un autre aspect: le désir de pouvoir et la domination d'innombrables papes, la cruauté des puissants et les souffrances des opprimés.
7) The Dream
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Rougon-Macquart volume 16
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Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll between a poor embroideress and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family set against the background of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France. A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola's best-known novels, it may at first seem a strange interlude between La Terre and La Bête Humaine in the 20-volume sequence known as the Rougon-Macquart cycle. However, belying its appearance as...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Theresa Raquin" by Émile Zola. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
9) Fruitfulness
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Fruitfulness (1899) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the first installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Fruitfulness was written while Zola was living in exile in England following his advocacy on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of spying. An inspired secularist and socialist, Zola foresaw...
10) The Masterpiece
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'The Masterpiece’ is a work of a French writer and publicist E. Zola (1840 - 1902). It describes the small bourgeoisie family in the Second Empire period. It's based on real life events of the author's life and his friends of youth, P. Cezanne, E. Manet, B. Bile, C. Monet, and others. The author supports impressionists. The novel problematizes attitude towards reality. After the book had, appeared the controversies began. In this book, an advanced...
11) The Beast in Man
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The Beast in Man (1890) - is a work by Emile Zola (1840-1902), a French writer and publicist. This is the seventh novel in Les Rougon-Macquart series. It's an awesome story of a family. The story describes a murder of a woman committed by her husband-rapist and its investigation. Even though critics blamed the author for dirty romanticism, the book was really popular among readers.
12) Lourdes
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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.
13) Germinal
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Germinal (1885), la decimotercera novela de la serie Rougon-Macquart que Émile Zola dedica al proletariado de la mina, narra la historia de Étienne Lantier, un maquinista en busca de trabajo, que llega a Montsou. El escritor describe, de una forma descarnada, el mundo sombrío y mísero de la mina, retratando a un grupo de personas que vive ahogado en condiciones infrahumanas y por cuyas venas el escritor hace correr el odio y el rencor, seres humanos...
14) Nana
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Rougon-Macquart volume 9
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Une édition de référence de Nana d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Un murmure grandit, comme un soupir qui se gonflait. Quelques mains battirent, toutes les jumelles étaient fixées sur Vénus. Peu à peu, Nana avait pris possession du public, et maintenant chaque homme la subissait. Le rut qui montait d'elle, ainsi que d'une bête en folie, s'était épandu toujours davantage, emplissant la...
15) His Masterpiece
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His Masterpiece is a fictional account of Zola's friendship with Paul Cezanne and a fairly accurate portrayal of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century. The story follows painter Claude Lantier who advocates painting real subjects in real places, most notably outdoors. This is in stark contrast to the artistic establishment, where artists painted in the studio and concentrated on mythological, historical and religious subjects. His art making...
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Une édition de référence de Le Ventre de Paris d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Non, la faim ne l'avait pas quitté. Il fouillait ses souvenirs, ne se rappelait pas une heure de plénitude. Il était devenu sec, l'estomac rétréci, la peau collée aux os. Et il retrouvait Paris, gras, superbe, débordant de nourriture, au fond des ténèbres ; il y rentrait, sur un lit de légumes ; il y roulait,...
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Une édition de référence de La Fortune des Rougon d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Alors Silvère, à bout de force, se mit à pleurer. Les sanglots d'un homme ont des sécheresses navrantes. Miette, effrayée de sentir le pauvre garçon secoué dans ses bras, le baisa au visage, oubliant qu'elle brûlait ses lèvres. C'était sa faute. Elle était une niaise de n'avoir pu supporter la douceur...
18) La Curée
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Une édition de référence de La Curée d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Renée, dans ses satiétés, éprouva une singulière sensation de désirs inavouables, à voir ce paysage qu'elle ne reconnaissait plus, cette nature si artistement mondaine, et dont la grande nuit frissonnante faisait un bois sacré, une de ces clairières idéales au fond desquelles les anciens dieux cachaient leurs amours...
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Inhalt:
Der Zusammenbruch (Emile Zola)
Um Szepter und Kronen-Romanzyklus (Oskar Meding)
Um Szepter und Kronen
Europäische Minen und Gegenminen
Zwei Kaiserkronen
Kreuz und Schwert
Held und Kaiser
Der Todesgruß der Legionen (Oskar Meding)
Die Liebe des Ulanen
Der Zusammenbruch beschreibt den politischen und militärischen Zusammenbruch des Zweiten Kaiserreichs, der zugleich ein moralischer ist. Geschildert wird ein Teil des Deutsch-Französischen...
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Une édition de référence de Au Bonheur des Dames d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
Dans le pan coupé donnant sur la place Gaillon, la haute porte, toute en glace, montait jusqu'à l'entresol, au milieu d'une complication d'ornements, chargés de dorures. Deux figures allégoriques, deux femmes riantes, la gorge nue et renversée, déroulaient l'enseigne: Au Bonheur des dames. Puis, les vitrines...
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