Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people ...
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the Frenc...
Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in...
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at t...
Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless...
When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same...
Considered by AndrGide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language,mile Zola'...
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's mos...