Books by Emile Zola

A gothic tale of murder and adultery, Therese Raquin was denounced aspornography on its publication in 1867. "Putrid literature" was howLouis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review.

A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Helene Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years.

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.

La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.

Zola's novel of peasant life describes the disintegration of the Fouan family when Papa Fouan decides to divide his land between his three children. Greed and violence feed a bitter struggle for supremacy. This new translation captures the novel's blend of brutality and lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural world.

Jean Macquart, søn af Antoine Macquart (Familien Rougon) og Gervaise Macquarts (Faldgruben) broder, er udtrådt af hæren og ernærer sig som omvandrende håndværker, indtil han slår sig ned som daglejer i den lille landsby Rognes på Beaucesletten i det nordlige Frankrig.I modsætning til de fleste andre bøger i serien er det dog ikke Rougon/Macquart-familien og dens særheder, der er hovedemnet i Jord, men en hel landsbys grådighed og indbyrdes had.Det hele udløses af den gamle Fouans beslutning om at skifte med sine børn: den ekstremt nærige, men forholdsvis ærlige Fanny, den grådige og liderlige Stivnakke, og den fordrukne og uansvarlige Hyacinthe, kaldet "Jesus Kristus", mod at få ophold hos ét af dem og afgifter af de to andre. Men i et samfund, hvor jord betyder alt, bliver den indbyrdes rivaliseren mellem de tre søskende - den, der har faderen boende, har også størst chance for at få raget hans beskedne formue til sig - snart til et brutalt had, hvis virkninger breder sig til resten af landsbyen.Jord er en fascinerende skildring af den fornedrelse, uvidenhed og grådighed kan have på mennesker. Den vakte ved sin fremkomst vild forargelse, og det er da næsten også for meget i én lille landsby at høre om mord, sexuel udnyttelse, bedrageri, tyveri og nærmest enhver anden last og forbrydelse, man kan komme i tanker om. Men måske var datidens anmelderes borgerlige forargelse nok så meget grundet i, at man ikke brød sig om at se den samme virkelighed, man kunne læse om i den daglige avis, skildret og analyseret i detaljer i et skønlitterært værk.Bind 18 i serien Les Rougon-Macquart

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 herself headlong into an affair.

Money centres on the figure of Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, and his unscrupulous money-making schemes. His story intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press, and resonates disturbingly with our own times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English.

An ambitious and unscrupulous priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, intent on conquering its political and social life. His arrival has profound consequences for the Mouret family, whose lives are turned upside down. This is the fourth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years.

Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it.