Émile Zola
1) Germinal
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During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.
2) Nana
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"Nana is probably the most famous character in Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel that bears her name, published in 1880, is the ninth volume in the series. It consists of a number of episodes, or tableaux, in the short but spectacular life of Ana Coupeau, the fourth child of Gervaise Macquart. We first saw her as a young girl in L'Assommoir (1877), her father an abusive alcoholic, her mother Gervaise reduced to a similar degraded state. She works as...
3) The kill
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"Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for more than a century, The Kill is a riveting story of a family, a city, and a civilization driven by desire, ambition, and greed. The ruthlessness of financier Aristide Saccard and the forbidden affair between his son, Maxime, and his second wife, Renee, explode against the kaleidoscopic background of Paris during that city's tumultuous emergence as a modern metropolis,...
