Emile Zola

'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.'Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings...

Les Rougon-Macquart doivent se composer d'une vingtaine de romans. Depuis 1869, le plan general est arrete, et je le suis avec une rigueur extreme. L'Assommoir est venu a son heure, je l'ai ecrit, comme j'ecrirai les autres, sans me deranger une seconde de ma ligne droite. C'est ce qui fait ma force. J'ai un but auquel...

Au milieu du grand silence, et dans le desert de l'avenue, les voitures de maraichers montaient vers Paris, avec les cahots rhythmes de leurs roues, dont les echos battaient les facades des maisons, endormies aux deux bords, derriere les lignes confuses des ormes. Un tombereau de choux et un tombereau de pois, au pont de Neuilly,...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. "e;FRUITFULNESS"e; is the first of a series of four works in which M. Zola proposes to embody what he considers to be the four cardinal principles of human life. These works spring from the previous series of The Three Cities: "e;Lourdes, "e; "e;Rome, "e; and "e;Paris, "e;...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. 'HIS MASTERPIECE,' which in the original French bears the title of L'Oeuvre, is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in Paris during the latter years of the Second Empire. Amusing at times, extremely pathetic and even painful at others,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. At nine o'clock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varietes was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these were lost, as it were, among the ranges of seats...