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  • Germinal

    by �mile Zola, Robert Lethbridge ...
    Translated by Peter Collier ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Bel-Ami

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Margaret Mauldon ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-Ami' by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siècle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Pierre et Jean

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Julie Mead ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • La Débâcle

    (reissue)

    Translated by Elinor Dorday ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.' Émile Zola The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Assommoir

    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    '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 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Émile Zola

    A Determined Life

    by Robert Lethbridge ...
    Émile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, whose reputation was reinforced by his historic intervention in the Dreyfus Affair. This book explores Zola’s life and work and the ways in which these were determined by the traumatic history of his times. From humble beginnings, Zola's life was marked by the determination to succeed. Robert Lethbridge traces Zola's development ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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  • Nana

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men who fall under her spell-especially Count Muffat, Chamberlain to the Empress. Nana herself meets a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Doctor Pascal

    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river of life itself' Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Earth

    by Brian Nelson, Émile Zola ...
    Translated by Julie Rose ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness of the peasants' world and their visceral attachment to the land. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Pride and Prejudice

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    "He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention." Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all time, has also proven itself as a treasured mainstay of the English literary canon. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Money

    Translated by Valerie Minogue ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • La Bête humaine

    Translated by Roger Pearson ...
    by Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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