Emile: 1072 books

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1871. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After...

Emile Zola (1840-1902) is perhaps the most important French writer of the 19th century. Zola dramatically shaped the course of French literature through the development of naturalism, characterized by the unsentimental and realistic portrayal of middle and lower class French life. His twenty novel cycle...

Emile Zola's novel Le Rêve (1888) is a love idyll between a poor embroideress and the son of a wealthy aristocratic family set against the background of a sleepy cathedral town in northern France. A far cry from the seething, teeming world evoked in Zola’s best-known novels, it may at first seem...

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1878. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After...

"Hace ocho días que Luciano Bérard y Hortensia Larivière están casados. La madre de la novia, viuda del señor Larivière, que posee, desde hace treinta años, un comercio de juguetes y bisutería en la calle de la Chaussée d’Antin, es una mujer seca y angulosa, de carácter despótico,...

Emile Zola is perhaps the most important, and certainly one of the most controversial, writers of 19th century French literature. Zola dramatically shaped the course of literature through the development of naturalism, characterized by the unsentimental and realistic portrayal of class in French society....

Classic short story. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867),...

When the world is trying to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, some people resort to developing a propensity to do strange things for strange reasons. Rationality and common sense goes out of the window. Worst yet, the most base level of our complex humanity brings out the...

Emile Zola’s own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire.

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola ( 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political...

Edition Complète de " Le Foyer Breton -  Emile Souvestre ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée. Le Foyer breton est un recueil de contes bretons, publié en 1844 en langue française.  Cet ouvrage...

Emile Souvestre était journaliste et écrivain. Il a contribué par son oeuvre à peindre le portable de la Bretagne. A travers les récits regroupés dans ce livre, l'auteur raconte le passé de cette région qui a connu de nombreuses mutations. "Je trouvais un peuple sans nom, chez lequel...

Dans le naufrage du passé, nous tâcherons au moins de sauver la poésie, trop heureux si notre livre pouvait devenir jamais ce qu’il voudrait être, c’est-à-dire les MILLE-ET-UNE NUITS de la Bretagne ». Ainsi s’exprimait Emile Souvestre (1806-1854), né à Morlaix, avocat, directeur de journal,...

Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate...