Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199538700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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Zola's most acerbic social satire, Pot Luck is set in a newly constructed block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Although it seems a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, and depicts a veritable `melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language, and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 467
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This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: Ruth Rendell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439150397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELL'S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS Is it dangerous to know too much about your neighbors? When Stuart Font throws a housewarming party, he invites all the residents of his new building--among them, three flippant young girls, a lonely spinster, a man with a passion for classical history, and a woman determined to drink herself to death. He definitely does not want his girlfriend, Claudia, in attendance, as he would also have to invite her lawyer husband. But careful planning can only get a person so far. As it turns out, this party will be one everyone remembers. Meanwhile, living in a town house opposite Stuart's building, in reclusive isolation, is a young, beautiful Asian woman known as Tigerlily. As though from some strange urban fairy tale, she emerges infrequently to exert a terrible spell. In Tigerlily's Orchids, Ruth Rendell has written a darkly humorous and psychologically thrilling novel about the eccentric inhabitants of a London terrace--about the secrets they keep, and what they will do to hide them.
Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 0198837569
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Zola and the art of fiction -- Before the Rougon-Macquart -- The fat and the thin: The belly of Paris -- 'A work of truth': L'assommoir -- The man-eater: Nana --The dream machine: The ladies' paradise -- Down the mine: Germinal -- The great mother: Earth -- After the Rougon-Macquart.
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019882856X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and their environment, and the fine line between self-respect and ruin.
Author: Frederick Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333662120
Category : Novelists, French
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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This magisterial biography of the strangely private and unknown man is also a superb history of social and literary France in the late 19th century and of the political and intellectual world through which Zola travelled.
Author: Melissa Glazer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425221266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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When her assistant David is accused of murdering his long-estranged father, renowned ceramics artist Charles Potter, Carolyn Emerson, who discovered the body in her raku pit, calls upon her studio's pottery club to crack this case wide open. Original.
Author: Brian Nelson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Emile Zola is a towering literary figure of the nineteenth century. His main literary achievement was his twenty-volume novel cycle, Les Rougon-Macquart (1870–93). In this series he combines a novelist's skills with those of the investigative journalist to examine the social, sexual and moral landscape of the late nineteenth century in a way that scandalized bourgeois society. In 1898 Zola crowned his literary career with a political act, his famous open letter ('J'accuse...!') to the President of the French Republic in defence of Alfred Dreyfus. The essays in this volume offer readings of individual novels as well as analyses of Zola's originality, his representation of society, sexuality and gender, his relations with the painters of his time, his narrative art, and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, detailed summaries of all of Zola's novels, suggestions for further reading, and information about specialist resources.
Author: Anna-Louise Milne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.
Author: Edwin A. Lovatt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134930623
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
