Emile Zola

Germinal is een van de 20 delen uit de verhalencyclus Les Rougon-Macquart van Émile Zola dat in 1884-1885 als feuilleton werd gepubliceerd in het franse tijdschrift Gil Blas. In Germinal brengt Zola de barre omstandigheden van het leven van de 19e-eeuwse mijnwerkers aan het licht. De titel is afgeleid van de …

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Au Bonheur des Dames is the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas and published in novel form by Charpentier in 1883. The novel is set in the world of the department store, an innovative development in mid-nineteenth century retail sales. Zola …

La Bête humaine is een roman van Émile Zola uit 1890. Het is het zeventiende deel uit de serie Les Rougon-Macquart. La Bête Humaine valt binnen de naturalistische stroming die een wetenschappelijke methode toepast op de literatuur. Voordat hij deze en de twintig andere romans in de serie schreef, bedacht hij een …

Pot-Bouille is the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical Le Gaulois before being published in book form by Charpentier in 1883. The novel is an indictment of the mores of the bourgeoisie of the Second French Empire. It is set in a …

La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village. Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very …

Une page d'amour is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central …

La joie de vivre is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas in 1883 before being published in book form by Charpentier in February 1884. It was translated into English by Ernest A. Vizetelly as How Jolly Life Is! in 1888 and by Jean Stewart as Zest …