Emile Zola Books In Order

Four Social Romances Books In Publication Order

  1. Fruitfulness (1899)
  2. Work (1901)
  3. Truth (1903)

Rougon-Macquart Books In Publication Order

  1. The Fortune of the Rougons (1870)
  2. The Kill / The Rush for the Spoil (1872)
  3. The Belly of Paris / The Fat and the Thin (1873)
  4. The Conquest of Plassans (1874)
  5. The Sin of Father Mouret / The Sinful Priest / Abbe Mouret’s Transgression (1875)
  6. His Excellency Eugene Rougon (1876)
  7. The Drinking Den / The Dram Shop / L’Assommoir / The Gin Palace (1877)
  8. A Love Episode / A Page of Love / A Love Story (1877)
  9. Nana (1880)
  10. Restless House / Lesson in Love (1882)
  11. The Ladies’ Paradise / Lesson in Love (1883)
  12. The Bright Side of Life / How Jolly Life Is / Zest for Life (1883)
  13. Germinal (1885)
  14. The Masterpiece (1886)
  15. The Soil / Earth (1887)
  16. The Dream (1888)
  17. The Beast in Man / The Beast Within (1890)
  18. Money (1891)
  19. The Downfall / The Debacle (1892)
  20. Doctor Pascal (1893)

Three Cities Books In Publication Order

  1. Rome (1896)
  2. Lourdes (1914)
  3. Paris (2014)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Claude’s Confession (1865)
  2. Therese Raquin (1867)
  3. The Mysteries of Marseilles (1867)
  4. Madeleine Ferat (1868)
  5. The Miller’s Daughter (1880)
  6. The Heirs of Rabourdin (1894)
  7. Travail: Labor (1901)
  8. The Fête at Coqueville (1907)
  9. A Mad Love (2017)
  10. Piping Hot! (2017)
  11. A Dead Woman’s Wish (2018)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Flood (1880)
  2. The Death Of Olivier Becaille (2010)
  3. Three Short Stories (2015)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Dead Men Tell No Tales (1877)
  2. Collected Works of Emile Zola (1938)
  3. The Best Known Works of Emile Zola (1941)
  4. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola (2006)
  5. Stories for Ninon (2010)
  6. Four Short Stories (2017)
  7. Attack on the Mill and Other Stories (2018)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Experimental Novel and Other Essays (1880)
  2. I Accuse! (1898)
  3. The Dreyfus Affair (1898)
  4. Notes from Exile (2003)
  5. Looking at Manet (2013)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age (1998)
  2. Fays of the Sea and Other Fantasies (2021)

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Emile Zola Books Overview

Fruitfulness

JOIE DE LE VIE! Zola portrays the triumph of rectitude, the triumph which follows faith in the powers of life, and observance of the law of universal labor. Fruitfulness contains charming pictures of homely married life, delightful glimpses of childhood and youth: the first smile, the first step, the first word, followed by the playfulness and the flirtations of boyhood, and the happiness which waits on the espousals of those who truly love. And the punishment of the guilty is awful. Earnest A. Vizetelly, 1900 Here is the story of Mathieu and his family and their quest for the goodness of life. Here is a great writer’s earnest hope for his beloved France. Fruitfulness was to be the first of a series of four novel a series, alas, never completed illustrating this immortal author’s philosophy on the building blocks of a great civilization. Foremost, however, Fruitfulness is a vivid portrait of a time and place and an unstoppable dream.

The Fortune of the Rougons

The idyll of Miette and Silv re is a very touching one, and quite in accord with the conditions of life prevailing in Provence at the period Emile Zola selects for his narrative. Miette is a frank child of nature; Silv re, her lover, in certain respects foreshadows, a quarter of a century in advance, the Abb Pierre Fromont of ‘Lourdes,’ ‘Rome,’ and ‘Paris.’ ‘The Fortune of the Rougons‘ is the initial volume of the Rougon Macquart series. Though it was by no means M. Zola’s first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first great bid for genuine literary fame, and the foundation of what must necessarily be regarded as his life work. The idea of writing the ‘natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire,’ extending to a score of volumes, was doubtless suggested to M. Zola by Balzac’s immortal ‘Com die Humaine.’ He was twenty eight years of age when this idea first occurred to him; he was fifty three when he at last sent the manuscript of his concluding volume, ‘Dr. Pascal,’ to the press. He had spent five and twenty years in working out his scheme, persevering with it doggedly and stubbornly, whatever rebuffs he might encounter, whatever jeers and whatever insults might be directed against him by the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the hypocritical. Truth was on the march and nothing could stay it; even as, at the present hour, its march, if slow, none the less continues athwart another and a different crisis of the illustrious novelist’s career.

The Kill / The Rush for the Spoil

Here is a true publishing event the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction’s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola s The Kill La Cur e emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author s twenty volume Rougon Macquart saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. The incestuous affair of Ren e Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Ren e s financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris becoming a modern metropolis and the capital of the nineteenth century. In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman s spirit and a city s soul ravaged beyond repair. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world s premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by infernal intelligence. In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who explicit, pitiless, wise, and unrelenting always goes in for the kill. From the Hardcover edition.

The Belly of Paris / The Fat and the Thin

Unjustly deported to Devil’s Island following Louis Napoleon’s coup d’ tat in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old March des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann’s grand program of urban reconstruction, replaced by Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Zola’s picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked. This is the first English translation in fifty years of Le Ventre de Paris The Belly of Paris. The third in Zola’s great cycle, Les Rougon Macquart, it is as enthralling as Germinal, Th r se Raquin, and the other novels in the series. Its focus on the great Paris food hall, Les Halles combined with Zola’s famous impressionist descriptions of food make this a particularly memorable novel. Brian Nelson’s lively translation captures the spirit of Zola’s world and his Introduction illuminates the use of food in the novel to represent social class, social attitudes, political conflicts, and other aspect of the culture of the time. The bibliography and notes ensure that this is the most critically up to date edition of the novel in print. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum 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, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Sin of Father Mouret / The Sinful Priest / Abbe Mouret’s Transgression

Emile Zola 1840 1902 was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. More than half of his novels were part of a set of 20 collectively known as Les Rougon Macquart. Set in France’s Second Empire, the series traces the ‘hereditary’ influence of violence, alcoholism, and prostitution in two branches of a single family: the respectable that is, legitimate Rougons and the disreputable illegitimate Macquarts, for five generations. His works include Therese Raquin 1867, Germinal 1885, Abb Mouret’s Transgression 1886, The Three Cities, Part I 1894, The Three Cities, Part II 1896, The Three Cities, Part III 1898, Fruitfulness 1900, and A Love Episode 1905.

The Drinking Den / The Dram Shop / L’Assommoir / The Gin Palace

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Part of the Les Rougon Macquart series by Emile Zola; this novel is a bleak but realistic portrayal of the poverty stricken lives of Parisian underclass during late 1800s. The main character, Gervaise and her two children are deserted by her lover and hoping for a better life, she marries Coupeau. But little does she know that now along with poverty she has to face her husband’s Alcoholism as well.

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Germinal

Germinal, by Emile Zola, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. mile Zola’s unflinchingly told story of a daring coal miners strike in northern France was published in 1885, when the prolific author was at the height of his powers. Today some readers believe this novel will prove to be his most enduring work. Spare yet compassionate, Germinal takes us from the comfortable homes of the bourgeoisie to the dark bowels of the earth, describing unbearable human suffering and exploitation in vivid and unsentimental prose. tienne Lantier, a poor but spirited young laborer in search of work, shares the wretched lives of the coal miners of Le Voreux, where the brutish and dangerous working conditions consume the health and prospects of young and old, one generation after another. Impoverished, ill, and hungry, the miners inspire tienne to attempt a revolt against the Company, an overthrow of the tyranny of capital, which was starving the worker. They answer his desperate call for a strike that grows increasingly violent and divisive, testing loyalties and endangering tienne s life even as it offers the workers their only hope of a decent existence. In a harrowing climax, the unforeseen consequences of the strike threaten to engulf them all in disaster. Dominique Jullien is a professor of French at Columbia University and the University of California Santa Barbara, and the editor in chief of the Romanic Review. Her books include Proust et ses mod les: Les Mille et une Nuits et les M moires de Saint Simon and R cits du Nouveau Monde: les Voyageurs fran ais en Am rique de Chateaubriand nos jours. She has published numerous articles on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, including several on mile Zola.

The Masterpiece

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. His Masterpiece is the story of Paris and art. It begins ‘CLAUDE was passing in front of the Hotel de Ville, and the clock was striking two o’clock in the morning when the storm burst forth. He had been roaming forgetfully about the Central Markets, during that burning July night, like a loitering artist enamoured of nocturnal Paris. Suddenly the raindrops came down, so large and thick, that he took to his heels and rushed, wildly bewildered, along the Quai de la Greve. But on reaching the Pont Louis Philippe he pulled up, ragefully breathless; he considered this fear of the rain to be idiotic; and so amid the pitch like darkness, under the lashing shower which drowned the gas jets, he crossed the bridge slowly, with his hands dangling by his side.’

The Dream

Here in its first translation in over a century, The Dream is a poignant exploration of the impossibility of love in the face of social constraints. Abandoned as a young child, Ang lique finds a new home with Hubert and Hubertine, who bring her up into a life of purity. Increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, she creates a world where ancient legends come to life; she lives in a dream. Such innocence, however, is ill preparation for the trials that life has to bring, and when her plans to marry are rejected out of hand by those stronger and more powerful than her simple family, she is dealt a blow that shatters not only her dream world but also her life. Novelist and critic Emile Zola is one of the foremost writers of 19th century France as well as a founder of the Naturalist movement in literature.

The Beast in Man / The Beast Within

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 powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola’s fast paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

Doctor Pascal

Doctor Pascal Rougon, a medical man at Plassans and a distin guished student of heredity, had brought up his niece Clotilde daughter of Aristide Rougon alias Saccard from childhood. Years afterwards they found that they passionately loved one another…
His mother, Felicite Rougon, who feared that his researches on heredity might bring scandal on the family, burned all his papers, and in one hour destroyed the work of a lifetime…
A child was born to Clotilde, a child which Pascal intensely desired, in the hope that through it might come the regeneration and rejuvenation of his race…
The story in the book is both simple and sad. J. G. Patterson Pascal’s works on the members of his family is, in small, what I have attempted to do on humanity, to show all so that all may be cured. It is not a book which, like La Debacle, will stir the passions of the mob. It is a scientific work, the logical deduction and conclusion of all my preceding novels, and at the same time it is my speech in defence of all that I have done before the court of public opinion. Emile Zola

Rome

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Lourdes

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Claude’s Confession

La Confession de Claude Claude’s Confession was Emile Zola’s first novel and his first attempt at what he would later call an ‘Experimental Novel.’ Published in Paris in 1865, it was quickly banned in the United States and Great Britain and was not translated into English for several decades. This is the first translation in nearly 150 years with an insightful and thought-provoking Introduction by one of the world’s leading Emile Zola scholars, Stephen R. Pastore, who has dedicated himself to introducing Zola to a new generation of English-speaking readers all over the world, particularly in the United States.

Therese Raquin

A gothic tale of murder and adultery, Th r se Raquin was denounced as po*rnography on its publication in 1867. ‘Putrid literature’ was how Louis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review. Zola defended himself against these attacks in his preface to the second edition, in which he outlined his aim to produce a new, ‘scientific’ form of realism. The novel marks a crucial step in Zola’s development and is a major early work of Naturalism.

In his introduction to Th r se Raquin, Brian Nelson places the novel in its cultural, intellectual and artistic contexts, and compares Zola’s scientific aims with his actual practice in this work. The scientific status of Naturalist fiction remains problematic; in the final analysis it is influenced by literary models and conventions. Zola’s powerful mythopoeic imagination does much to counteract the mechanistic view of humanity the novel was intended to embody. The myth of the fall is, indeed, fundamental to Zola’s Naturalistic vision.

The Miller’s Daughter

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The Flood

Emile Zola 1840 1902 was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. More than half of his novels were part of a set of 20 collectively known as Les Rougon Macquart. Set in France’s Second Empire, the series traces the ‘hereditary’ influence of violence, alcoholism, and prostitution in two branches of a single family: the respectable that is, legitimate Rougons and the disreputable illegitimate Macquarts, for five generations. His works include Therese Raquin 1867, Germinal 1885, Abb Mouret’s Transgression 1886, The Three Cities, Part I 1894, The Three Cities, Part II 1896, The Three Cities, Part III 1898, Fruitfulness 1900, and A Love Episode 1905.

Dead Men Tell No Tales

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. The settings of the stories also range widely, from the aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty stricken garrets, from the cemeteries of Paris to the countryside of Zola s youth. In these 16 stories, Zola s racy tone is faithfully rendered by acclaimed translator Douglas Parm e.

The Experimental Novel and Other Essays

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world’s literature.

The Dreyfus Affair

When French authorities accused Jewish Army captain Alfred Dreyfus of espionage in 1894, the resulting anti Semitic controversy bitterly divided France and its intellectual world. This book is the first complete edition in English of the pivotal contribution of French novelist Emile Zola to The Dreyfus Affair. His impassioned writings represent a classic defense of human rights and a searing denunciation of fanaticism and prejudice, as significant today as when they were written.

Notes from Exile

On July 19th, 1898, Emile Zola arrived in England after fleeing imprisonment in France. He was to spend eleven months in self imposed exile because of his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. During this time, the family of his English translator, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, took care of his everyday needs. While in Britain, Zola wrote a short text entitled ‘Pages d’exil,’ in which he talked about his feelings regarding England, exile, and other matters. An avid photographer, Zola also took pictures of his surroundings that were left with the Vizetelly family when he returned to France.

Dorothy Speirs and Yannick Portebois, in collaboration with Ernest Alfred Vizetelly’s last surviving grandson, have here reproduced those photographs with the first English translation, fully annotated, of ‘Pages d’exil.’ The photographs, of landscapes, churches, and street scenes, have never been published before, and represent a major contribution to the collection of Zola photographs, many of which are today largely inaccessible. Together, the text and photographs will be of great interest to anyone who enjoys Zola’s work, and to scholars of French history and the Dreyfus Affair.

Erotic Tales of the Victorian Age

While sexual writing today is popular, it pales in comparison to the steamy and graphic, yet romantically inviting works authored during the 19th century. EROTIC TALES includes selections by such renowned authors as Emile Zola, Sir Richard Burton, Bram Stoker, Frank Harris, Charles Devereaux, and of course the inimitable Anonymous. A volume filled with passion with panache.

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