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Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume. Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings – from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the Provencal countryside of the author’s childhood – these stories will keep...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2017 |
Finding the young Angelique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fuelled by her reading of the Golden Legend and other mystical Christian writings. One day love, in the shape of Felicien Hautecoeur, enters the dream world she has constructed around...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2016 |
Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society ? obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification ? The Ladies’ Paradise vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shopgirl from the provinces, and Octave Mouret, the dashing young director of a shopping emporium, who find themselves torn between the conflicting forces of love, loyalty and ambition. Set in the heart of the city,...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2018 |
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugene Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2017 |
In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic. Contains: Dead Men Tell No Tales Coqueville on the...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2017 |
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emulate her appearance, lovers even kill themselves for her. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Nana provoked...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1972 |
Nana tells the story of the rise of the rise of the young woman Nana Coupeau from the slums of Paris to the life of a high-class escort. Considered outrageous when it was first published in 1880, its heroine is a character of questionable morals surrounded by corrupt society. One of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, Nana plays with her companion's emotions, leading them to ruin, misfortune and even suicide.
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Год | 2019 |
Perhaps his most famous work, Emile Zola's Therese Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics. Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques,...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2007 |
Despite the grimness of his subject and the accuracy of his description, Zola tells an irresistible tale of life above and below ground among the mining families of Montsou. By turns heroic, comic, touching and bestial, the novel never flinches from savage reality while managing to paint a moving picture of humanity at its limit and beyond.
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1991 |
The Ladies' Delight 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 girl, becomes an assistant at the store - and Mouret discovers that he in turn can also be enchanted. With its greedy customers, gossiping staff and...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2001 |
Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by Robin Buss. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2003 |
Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected… oh yes, there's many a murderer basking in the sun... When Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend, Laurent, and Therese throws...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2014 |
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Emile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern France Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breakin job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2004 |
A tempting anthology of tales about the culinary arts, from across the centuries and around the world. Stories from the Kitchen presents a mouth-watering smorgasbord of stories with food in the starring role, by authors ranging from Dickens, Chekhov and Saki through Evelyn Waugh and Isak Dinesen to Jim Crace and Amy Tan. The bill of fare includes choice titbits from classic novels - the triumphant boeuf en daube served in Woolf's To the Lighthouse; Proust's rhapsodic memory of the family cook...
| Автор | Вирджиния Вулф, Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
Viis naturalistlikku olustikupildikest sellest, kuidas surevad inimesed XIX sajandi Prantsusmaal: kuidas sureb aadlimees, kodanlaseproua, poepidaja, laps lihtrahva hulgast ja talupoeg.
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Vankrid veeresid, hobused sammusid omatahtsi, pea norus. Mees, kelle proua Francois oli üles korjanud, lamas kõhuli, pikad jalad peitunud vankri tagaosa täitvasse naerikuhja; ta nägu oli surutud keset ilusat porgandilasu, mille pundid end laiutades ülespoole sirutasid; ja kurnatult, haarates laiali kätega määratut aedviljakoormat hirmust, et mõni raputus võib ta maha paisata, silmitses ta enda ees olevat kahte lõputut gaasilaternate rida, mis liginesid ja segunesid seal päris üleval, teiste...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Aastatel 1871-1893 avaldas Émile Zola kahekümneköitelise romaanitsükli “Rougon-Macquart’id”, kuhu kuulub ka käesolev romaan “Vaht”, mis ilmub eesti keeles esmakordselt ja on ühtlasi romaani “Daamide Õnn” eellugu. Pea täis auahneid plaane, saabub Octave Mouret Pariisi. Asunud elama aukartust sisendavasse kodanlasemajja, märkab ta peagi, et uhkeldav fassaad varjab üpris kummalist elu. Ei tema võõrustaja ega majahoidja väsi rääkimast maja asustava kodanluse kõrgest moraalist, kuid pikapeale saab...
| Автор | Zola Emile |
| Жанр | Контркультура |