About this title: 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 with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deformed child Jacques - is sacrificed on the altar of Art. The Masterpiece is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. Set ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1999-07-22
ISBN-13:9780192839633ISBN:0192839632
Description: Very Good. Tight, bright and shiny, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, cover curl, spots on bottom page edges. read more
Description: New. **NEW** Slight surface & edge wear. Inside book is clean, pages tight. No remainder marks. Shipped with delivery confirmation inside US. Selling books since 1979* s/BN-U2-150. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780472061457ISBN:0472061453
Description: Very Good-with no dust jacket; Soil on half title page. Back cover and last few pages have a small crimp. 0472061453. 8vo; 367 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN-13:9780199536917ISBN:0199536910
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780199536917. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, New York
Date Published: n. d
Description: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD. English translation by Francis Walton. Story of a painter and a writer, whose struggles, successes, and failures are a reflection of Zola's own difficult but fascinating progress through the literary and artistic world of Paris. An exuberant testament against the ignorance and derision of the "Philistines". 367 pp. Very slight edgewear and cornerwear to DJ. Brodart protection to DJ. No markings. read more
"A lovely rendering of the beginnings of Impressionism. The novel, which airs compelling discussions of art and the Artist, is also a story about friendship, loyalty and aging. While at times seeming nostalgic, it is never suffocated by regret."
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