Emile Zola

Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Emile Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere 'human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire …

《小酒店》，法国写实主义作家左拉的《卢贡-马卡尔家族》系列小说的第七部，发表于1877年，是一部研究酗酒后果的小说，把第二帝国时期巴黎下层人的生活描写得灵魂活现，一开始是在“公共福利报”上连载，引起轩然大波。文艺批评家阿尔塔·米罗的批评说：“这不是现实主义手法，这是肮脏描写；这不是裸体展示，这是色情表演。”不久停止刊载，但这部小说赢得了福楼拜、莫泊桑、龚古尔兄弟的赞美，因此甫一出版即造成空前的销售量，使左拉一举成名。 …

The Fortune of the Rougons is a book written by Emile Zola. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Fortune of the Rougons is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others …

'Money' may be said to rank among Emile Zola's notable achievements... This is not surprising... It may be safely said that its publication is well timed, for the rottenness of our financial world has become such a crying scandal, and the inefficiency of our company laws has been so fully demonstrated, that the …

Zeno's extraordinary and disturbing paradoxes, the atomic theories of Democritus that so strikingly anticipate contemporary physics, the enigmatic and haunting epigrams of Heraclitus - these are just some of the riches to be found in this collection of writings of the early Greek philosophers. Jonathan Barnes's …

La Conquête de Plassans is the fourth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon, this novel is again centred on the fictional Provençal town of Plassans and its plot revolves around a sinister cleric's attempt at …