Emile Zola

Thérèse Raquin, romance do escritor francês Émile Zola, é considerada a obra inaugural do naturalismo literário. Ao ser publicada, foi severamente repudiada pela crítica literária especializada. Segundo um dos críticos: Estabeleceu-se há alguns anos uma escola monstruosa de romancistas, que pretende substituir a …

Lantier and Gervaise are fresh from the south, making a new life in Paris. But Lantier soon succumbs to urban degeneracy and abandons her. Gervaise, marries Coupeau the roofer and strives to realise her dream of running her own laundry. Hardship, however, is never far away. The text is here accompanied by an …

A fortuna dos Rougon é um romance escrito pelo francês Émile Zola e publicado em 1871. Primeira obra da série Rougon Macquart.

'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 …