L'assommoir By Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics Av Emile Zola

Zola's novel of peasant life describes the disintegration of the Fouan family when Papa Fouan decides to divide his land between his three children. Greed and violence feed a bitter struggle for supremacy. This new translation captures the novel's...

The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great <b>Rougon-Macquart</b> sequence, <b>Germinal</b> expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and...

''My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.'' ¿ile ZolaThe penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La D¿cle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian...