Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Zola’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other works
* The complete Rougon-Macquart cycle, as well as all the other novels and series
* Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Many rare novels, including the author’s scandalous first novel, appearing for the first time in digital print
* The complete short stores, including Zola’s first book STORIES FOR NINON – first time in digital print
* Includes Zola’s famous ‘J’ACCUSE!’, with explanatory introduction
* Special criticism section, with essays by famous writers such as Henry James and James Joyce, evaluating Zola’s contribution to literature
* Features a biography by Zola’s English translator – follow Zola’s literary life when fleeing France for safety in England
* Also includes a special resources section, with the detailed listing of the Rougon-Macquart family tree, as well as an index of the main characters and locations in the twenty-novel series
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with rare short stories and special alphabetical short stories list, in response to customer feedback
* UPDATED with improved table of contents, with links to each chapter, story and section
* UPDATED with the seminal 2nd edition Preface to THERESE RAQUIN
CONTENTS:
The Early Novels
CLAUDE’S CONFESSION
THE DEAD WOMAN’S WISH
THE MYSTERY OF MARSEILLE
THERESE RAQUIN
MADELEINE FERAT
The Rougon-Macquart Cycle
THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS
THE KILL
THE FAT AND THE THIN
THE CONQUEST OF PLASSANS
ABBE MOURET’S TRANSGRESSION
HIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGON
THE DRAM SHOP
A LOVE EPISODE
NANA
PIPING HOT
THE LADIES’ PARADISE
THE JOY OF LIFE
GERMINAL
HIS MASTERPIECE
THE EARTH
THE DREAM
THE HUMAN BEAST
MONEY
THE DOWNFALL
DOCTOR PASCAL
The Three Cities
LOURDES
ROME
PARIS
The Four Gospels
FRUITFULNESS
LABOUR
TRUTH
The Short Stories
STORIES FOR NINON
NEW STORIES FOR NINON
THE ATTACK ON THE MILL
MISCELLANEOUS STORIES
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
J’Accuse !
I ACCUSE…!
The Criticism
ÉMILE ZOLA by Henry James
THE ZOLA CONTROVERSY by G. K. Chesterton
M. ZOLA by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
An Extract from ‘MY LITERARY PASSIONS’ by William Dean Howells
ÉMILE ZOLA by William Dean Howells
ZOLA by Henryk Sienkiewicz
BORLASE AND SON by James Joyce
The Biography
WITH ZOLA IN ENGLAND by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Resources
THE ROUGON-MACQUART FAMILY TREE
INDEX OF CHARACTERS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES
INDEX OF LOCATIONS IN THE ROUGON-MACQUART SERIES