BOOKS by Emile Zola

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1	The Masterpiece more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.25! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Germinal more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Zola's depiction of the life of the laboring classes, and the struggle between capital and the workers in the mines of northern France, is an epic of naturalism that also possesses the richness and exactitude of a sociological document. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Ladies' Paradise more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist "The Ladies' Paradise" (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late 19th-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is also emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations that were taking place at the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.26! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Early Greek Philosophy more books like this by Jonathan Barnes (Editor) add to wishlist The works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy - the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-Socratics thinkers lies less in their influence - great though that was - than in their astonishing intellectual ambition and imaginative reach. Zeno ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
5	Nana more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Belly of Paris more books like this by Emile Zola, Ernest A Vizetelly (Translator) add to wishlist 'Respectable people...What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way ... see all copies from $4.30! new only from $7.97! \| SVS
7	Therese Raquin more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere 'human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	L'assommoir more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist One of the most important examples of the "naturalist" style and school, this work depicts working-class life in the slums of Paris. When it was first serialized in a newspaper in 1876, it was almost universally criticized not only for its lowlife characters but for the liberties Zola took with the French language. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.04! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Au Bonheur Des Dames more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Au Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace. Then Denise Baudu, a naive provincial ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Debacle: 1870-71 more books like this by Emile Zola, Leonard W Tancock (Translator) add to wishlist Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Drinking Den more books like this by Emile Zola, Robin Buss (Translator) add to wishlist Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people living in the slums of a city. "The Drinking Den" (1877) is part of the "Rougon-Macquart" series, a naturalistic history of two branches of a family traced through several generations. Zola's work was influenced by contemporary theories of heredity and ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $6.50! \| SVS
12 view cover	La Bete Humaine more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Zola's dissection of the corruption of the French political and judicial system is a taut thriller of violent passion, crime, and the law. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Dreyfus Affair: Jaccuse and Other Writings more books like this by Emile Zola, Alain Pages (Editor), Ms. Eleanor Levieux (Translator) add to wishlist In September 1894 the French authorities intercepted a letter which they claimed emanated from a Jewish army captain, Alfred Dreyfus, and appeared to be proof of espionage on behalf of Germany. Dreyfus was subsequently court-martialed and imprisoned on Devil's Island, and the efforts of his family to have him released provoked an anti-Semitic ... see all copies from $6.22! new only from $20.24! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Laws of Manu more books like this by Emile Zola, Manu, Anonymous add to wishlist "The Laws of Manu" form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the social obligations and duties of the various castes, the proper way for a righteous king to rule ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $8.00!
15 view cover	The Earth: La Terre more books like this by Emile Zola, Douglas Parmee (Translator) add to wishlist When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he quickly finds himself involved in the corrupt affairs of the local Fouan family. Aging and Lear-like, Old Man Fouan has decided to divide his land between his three children: his penny-pinching daughter Fanny, his eldest son - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.28! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories more books like this by Emile Zola, Douglas Parme (Translator) add to wishlist This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new larger format, and with the series name changed to 'Oxford World's Classics'. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Mencius: 5 more books like this by Mencius, Emile Zola, Professor D C Lau (Translator) add to wishlist The Confucian philosopher, Mencius (c.371-288 BC) explicated his master's moral principles and reinterpreted them for the harsh conditions of the 4th century BC, when they were threatened by the aggressive and amoral doctrines of legalism. With its stress on the "thinking heart" (or individual conscience), "Mencius" is a defence of morality in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $25.16! \| first editions
18 view cover	Paris more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist In Zola's 1873 tale, a prisoner who's escaped and taken refuge in Paris gets caught up in a Socialist cell -- and sees a Paris not to be found elsewhere. One of Zola's own favorites, "Paris" is a truly brilliant tale -- it shows us the city's underbelly, both figureatively and literally, for we see the enormous market (built in the 1850s) into ... see all copies from $9.94! new only from $21.66! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Money more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist "Judged by the standard of popularity, "Money" may be said to rank among M. Zolas notable achievements . . . This is not surprising, as the book deals with a subject of great interest to every civilized community."--Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. see all copies from $10.92! new only from $18.07! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The kill more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist 'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.21! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Kill: La Curee more books like this by Emile Zola, Brian Nelson (Translator) add to wishlist 'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La ... see all copies from $9.35! new only from $9.35! \| SVS
22 view cover	Germinal: 4 more books like this by Emile Zola, Leonard W Tancock (Adapted by) add to wishlist Zola's depiction of the life of the laboring classes, and the struggle between capital and the workers in the mines of northern France, is an epic of naturalism that also possesses the richness and exactitude of a sociological document. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.70! \| first editions
23 view cover	Doctor Pascal more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist Doctor Pascal Rougon, a medical man at Plassans and a distin-guished student of heredity, had brought up his niece Clotilde (daughter of Aristide Rougon alias Saccard) from childhood. Years afterwards they found that they passionately loved one another... His mother, Felicite Rougon, who feared that his researches on heredity might bring scandal ... see all copies from $12.02! new only from $13.26! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Beast Within more books like this by Emile Zola, Roger Whitehouse (Translator) add to wishlist "La Bete humaine" (1890), the seventeenth novel in the "Rougon-Macquart" series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it ... see all copies from $8.34! new only from $9.25! \| SVS
25 view cover	The dream more books like this by Emile Zola add to wishlist The Dream is a poignant exploration of the impossibility of love in the face of social constraints. In it Zola posits the naivety of a young Christian girl alongside society's unrelenting expectations to create a tale of beauty and sorrow, vivid in its naturalistic detail. Abandoned as a young child, Angelique find a new home with Hubert and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.68! \| first editions \| SVS

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