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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.

Zola wrote that 'my title speaks not merely of a war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world'. 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 1870-71. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as its attention to historical detail. The novel seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control. Zola's descriptions are some of the most powerful he ever wrote. He skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Débâcle has been described as a 'seminal' work for all modern depictions of war.

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city.

Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced Flaubert to almost inarticulate gasps of admiration: 'Chapter 14, unsurpassable! ...Yes! ...Christ Almighty! ...Incomparable ...Straight out of Babylon!' Boulevard society is presented with painstaking attention to detail, and Zola's documentation of the contemporary theatrical scene comes directly from his own experience - it was his own failure as a playwright which sent him back to novel-writing and Nana itself. novel-writing and Nana itself. This new translation is an accurate and stylish rendering of Zola's original, which was first published in 1880.

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.

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city.

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city.

Macmillan Readers Therese Raquin Intermediate

Dans un décor de gares et de trains, se joue une histoire peu commune, faite d'amour et de haine. Un conducteur de train, Jacques Lantier, un homme en apparence calme et doux, souffre d'un terrible mal : Il ne peut aimer sans avoir envie de tuer. Autre bte humaine " : La Lison, sa locomotive vapeur, qu'il entretient avec passion et qui va l'entraîner dans une effroyable catastrophe ferroviaire..."

Dans un décor de gares et de trains, se joue une histoire peu commune, faite d'amour et de haine. Un conducteur de train, Jacques Lantier, un homme en apparence calme et doux, souffre d'un terrible mal : Il ne peut aimer sans avoir envie de tuer. Autre bte humaine " : La Lison, sa locomotive vapeur, qu'il entretient avec passion et qui va l'entraîner dans une effroyable catastrophe ferroviaire..."

La Fortune Des Rougon

This series provides a wide variety of reading materials for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classics and contemporary titles as well as specially written stories.

Dans un petit village de pcheurs des côtes normandes, Pauline Quenu, devenue orpheline, est recueillie par les Chanteau, auxquels elle se dévoue entirement. Éprise de Lazare, le fils - double inquiet de l'écrivain -, elle se voue son bonheur, malgré lui et au prix des plus grands sacrifices. Conçu par Zola comme une oeuvre « sur la douleur et la bonté », La d`oie de vivre, douzime volume des Rougon-Macquart, est un roman sur la mort, la disparition brutale des tres ou l'étiolement de chaque jour. Marqué par un pessimisme la Schopenhauer, c'est l'un des livres les plus personnels de l'écrivain.

Emile Zola was a French novelist who wrote in the school of naturalism and is noted for his work in revolutionizing France. The Rougon-Macquart series brought Zola literary fame and is considered his life work. It took 25 years to finish the 20 volumes. The idea of writing the social history of a family encompassing several volumes probably came from his reading the works of Balzac. Zola shows how people in a family who appear to be quite individualistic are actually quite similar. Heredity and proximity determine who we are and how we act. Theresa Raquin was first published in 1867 in serial form in L; Artiste. In 1873 Zola turned the novel into a play. In Theresa Raquin a well-intentioned aunt marries a young woman to her first cousin. Camille is sickly and selfish, and when the opportunity arises, Thrse enters into a tragic affair with Camille's friend Laurent. Zola called this novel a scientific study of temperament instead of a character study making it an example of naturalism.

La Faute De L'Abbe Mouret

La Débâcle : Sedan, l'effondrement de la France impériale, frivole et corrompue, devant "l'esprit scientifique" de l'Allemagne et l'implacable mécanique de ses armées. La défaite, le si?ge de Paris, le brasier de la Commune, "l'exécrable semaine" de la répression versaillaise. Reportage militaire d'une scrupuleuse exactitude, fresque de deuil, de souffrance et de sang, le roman est aussi l'analyse de la déchirure qui est au coeur de la conscience collective des Français et que juin 40 fera revivre."La Débâcle est un de ces documents privilégiés en dehors desquels l'histoire morale de la France contemporaine ne saurait et ne pourrait ?tre écrite."Raoul Girardet