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La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, historical, and literary context.

Author Emile Zola, Leonard Tancock

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The Ladies' Paradise by OUP Oxford

Author Emile Zola

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Etienne Lantier, from the illegitimate Macquart branch of the family, arrives in the mining settlement of Montsou, and witnesses at first hand the appalling conditions in which miners live and work. Gradually becoming embroiled in a bitter dispute between the miners and their employers, he eventually leads the strike. by Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Author Emile Zola

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443 pages. No dust jacket. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering and contains pictorial plates. Pages are slightly yellowed with light foxing to text block edge and the endpapers, noticeable cracking to the front hinge exposing netting. Binding is firm with light corner bumping and markings to the boards. Spine has light shelf wear. by Blackwood Scott & Co

Author Emile Zola

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Nana

Author Emile Zola

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La Bete Humaine (Folio) by Editions Flammarion

Author Zola, Emile

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1897. 359 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Moderate tanning to endpapers and page edges. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges. Moderate staining and marking to boards. by Chatto & Windus

Author Emile Zola

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The Sin of Abbe Mouret by OUP Oxford

Author Emile Zola

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320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. B&W illustrations throughout. Heavy foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Moderate sunning to spine and board edges. by HUTCHINSON

Author Emile Zola

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His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's "The Beast Within" (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in "Penguin Classics". Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness - Jacques Lantier, a fellow railway employee. Jacques, meanwhile, must contend with his own terrible impulses, for every time he sees a woman he feels the overwhelming desire to kill. In the company of Roubaud's wife, Severine, he finds peace briefly, yet his feelings for her soon bring disasterous consequences. A key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, "The Beast Within" is one of Zola's most dark and violent works - a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mind. Roger Whitehouse's vivid translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing Zola's depiction of the railways, politics and the legal system and the influence of the studies of criminology and the Jack the Ripper murders on his novel.This edition also includes a chronology, suggestions for further reading and notes. Emile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years, including "Au Bonheur des Dames" (1883), "The Beast Within" (1890), "Nana" (1880), and "The Drinking Den" (1877). If you enjoyed "The Beast Within", you might like Zola's "The Drinking Den", also available in "Penguin Classics".

Author Émile Zola

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Zola was the leading figure in the French school of Naturalistic fiction and "Germinal" is the compelling portrait of life in a mining community. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. by Orion Publishing Co

Author Zola, Emile

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The Sin of Abbe Mouret by OUP Oxford

Author Emile Zola

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Paris (Pocket Classics) by The History Press Ltd

Author Zola, Emile

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428 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Firm binding to clean, lightly tanned pages with bright copy throughout. Cracked hinge at frontispiece rear exposing binding. Previous owner's name to fep. Minor foxing to endpapers and occasional page edges. Infrequent crease to corners. Light rub wear and small stains to boards with sunning to spine. Moderate rub wear to edges with fraying to spine ends and bumped corners. by Blackwood Scott & Co

Author Emile Zola

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Nana (World's Classics)

Author Emile Zola, Douglas Parmee

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