Zola, Émile 1840-1902

Germinal by Émile Zola ( Book )
1,271 editions published between 1885 and 2014 in 31 languages and held by 9,090 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor

Therese Raquin by Émile Zola ( Book )
779 editions published between 1868 and 2014 in 28 languages and held by 5,988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Nineteenth novel by Émile Zola about adultery, murder, and revenge

Nana by Émile Zola ( Book )
755 editions published between 1880 and 2015 in 22 languages and held by 5,607 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Living in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III's France is a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana. For her, rich men give up their fortunes and honor; poor men give up their mates and even their lives

L'assommoir by Émile Zola ( Book )
651 editions published between 1873 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 4,856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877), is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, the local drinking shop, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir is the most finely crafted of Zola's novels, and this new translation captures not only the brutality but also the pathos of its characters' lives. This book is a powerful indictment of nineteenth-century social conditions, and the Introduction examines its relation to politics and art as well as its explosive effect on the literary scene

The debacle, 1870-71 by Émile Zola ( Book )
454 editions published between 1000 and 2013 in 12 languages and held by 3,830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skillfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France."--Jacket

The kill = (La curée) by Émile Zola ( Book )
408 editions published between 1850 and 2013 in 11 languages and held by 3,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The incestuous affair of Renee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renee's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris swiftly becoming a modern metropolis and "the capital of the nineteenth century." In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair

The ladies' paradise by Émile Zola ( Book )
548 editions published between 1880 and 2014 in 14 languages and held by 3,229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time"--The publisher

La Bête humaine by Émile Zola ( Book )
477 editions published between 1840 and 2014 in 12 languages and held by 2,892 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Emile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bete Humaine-to be his "most finely worked" novel. This new translation finally captures his fast- paced yet deliberately dispassionate style. Set at the end of the Second Empire, when French society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new railways and locomotives it was building, The Beast Within is at once a tale of murder, passion, and possession and a compassionate study of individuals derailed by the burden of inherited evil. In it, Zola expresses the hope that human nature evolves through education but warns that the beast within continues to lurk beneath the veneer of technological progress. (Barnes & Noble)

The sin of Father Mouret by Émile Zola ( Book )
389 editions published between 1000 and 2012 in 11 languages and held by 2,176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Een in de 19e eeuw in een klein geïsoleerd dal in Zuid-Frankrijk spelend verhaal over de zielenstrijd van een priester die een meisje gaat liefhebben

Les Rougon-Macquart, histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire. Texte intégral établi by Émile Zola ( Book )
347 editions published between 1871 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Les quatre premiers maillons des ##Rougon-Macquart##. Près de 200 pages d'études, notes et variantes. Préface, p. ix-lviii. [SDM]