L'assommoir

The Rougon family, in M. Zola's narrative, rises to fortune, and the town of Plassans (really Aix-en-Provence) bows down before its power. But time passes, the revolt of the clergy supervenes, by their influence the town chooses a Royalist Marquis as deputy, and it becomes necessary to conquer it once again.Abbé Faujas, by whom this conquest is achieved on behalf of the Empire, is a strongly conceived character, perhaps the most real of all the priests that are scattered through M. Zola's books. No other priestly creation of M. Zola's pen vie with the stern, chaste, authoritative, ambitious Faujas, the man who subdues Plassans, and who wrecks the home of the Mouret family, with whom he lives. The book largely deals with the matter of 'the priest in the house,' and towards the end of the volume Mouret, the husband who has been driven mad and shut up in a lunatic asylum, returns home and wreaks the most terrible vengeance upon those who have wronged him.The pages which deal with the madman's escape and his horrible revenge are certainly among the most powerful that M. Zola has ever written, and have been commended for their effectiveness by several of his leading critics. (Ernest Alfred Vizetelly)

La conquête de Plassans

Treizième roman de la série des Rougon-Macquart, Germinal - titre évocateur puisqu’il évoque le début du printemps dans la calendrier républicain, et donc la renaissance du monde -, est un émouvant plaidoyer en faveur de la lutte des classes et des miséreux. Le héros, Etienne Lantier, part dans le Nord pour trouver du travail. Embauché aux mines de Montsou, il découvre les conditions de travail et de vie effroyables des mineurs. Quand la Compagnie des Mines décrète une baisse des salaires, c’en est trop. Etienne invite les mineurs à refuser cette fatalité et mène la grève. La famille Maheu le suit, puis d’autres. Mais la compagnie reste inflexible, la grève se durcit. Les installations minières et les machines sont endommagées. Les mineurs gagneront-ils leur combat ?

Germinal

Les Rougon-Macquart 5: L'Œuvre; La Terre; Le Rêve; La Bête humaine

Le Ventre de Paris est un roman écrit par Émile Zola et publié en 1873. L’action se passe essentiellement aux Halles centrales de Paris, construites par Victor Baltard entre 1854 et 1870. Zola en fait dans son roman une sorte de monstre, comme le seront plus tard le grand magasin dans Au Bonheur des Dames, l’alambic dans l'Assommoir ou la locomotive dans la Bête humaine.

Le Ventre de Paris

Depicts the grim struggle between capital and labour in a coalfield in northern France. Yet through the blackness of this picture, humanity is constantly apparent, and the final impression is one of compassion and hope for the future, not only of organized labour, but also of man.

Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13)

Au Bonheur des Dames is a work by Emile Zola now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Au Bonheur des Dames (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)

Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother's family in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Florent is soon caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics. Amid intrigue among the market's sellers—the fishmonger, the charcutiere, the fruit girl, and the cheese vendor—and the glorious culinary bounty of their labors, we see the dramatic difference between "fat and thin" (the rich and the poor) and how the widening gulf between them strains a city to the breaking point.

L'assommoir

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