Nana, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Germinal, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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,...

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...