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(0)Émile Zola
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Thérèse Raquin (1867) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Initially serialized in L'Artiste, a popular French literary magazine, Thérèse Raquin, Zola's third novel, earned the author widespread fame and critical condemnation for its scandalous content and unsparing vision of human sexuality and violence. Thérèse Raquin effectively launched Zola's career as a leading practitioner of literary naturalism, and has since been adapted countless...
Author
Series
Rougon-Macquart volume 20
Publisher
The Floating Press
Language
English
Description
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola[1] (* 2. April 1840 in Paris; † 29. September 1902 ebenda) war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Zola gilt als einer der großen französischen Romanciers des 19. Jahrhunderts und als Leitfigur und Begründer der gesamteuropäischen literarischen Strömung des Naturalismus. Zugleich war er ein sehr aktiver Journalist, der sich auf einer gemäßigt linken Position am politischen Leben beteiligte....
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Gin Palace is the seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, which follows two branches of a French family through several generations. It is also the work that made his reputation, introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature.
Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of
...4) Germinal
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Series
Language
English
Description
During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.
5) Germinal
Author
Publisher
Alianza Editorial
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
Español
Description
Germinal (1885), la decimotercera novela de la serie Rougon-Macquart que Émile Zola dedica al proletariado de la mina, narra la historia de Étienne Lantier, un maquinista en busca de trabajo, que llega a Montsou. El escritor describe, de una forma descarnada, el mundo sombrío y mísero de la mina, retratando a un grupo de personas que vive ahogado en condiciones infrahumanas y por cuyas venas el escritor hace correr el odio y el rencor, seres humanos...
9) L'assommoir
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This is a new translation of the seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) - the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. A contemporary bestseller, it outraged conservative critics and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature.
10) Thirst
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Korean
Description
Sang-hyun is a priest working for a hospital. He selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery after receiving an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He quickly realizes his sole reason for living involves taking the pleasures of the flesh. He struggles to control his insatiable thirst for...
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Publisher
e-artnow
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Dubliners (James Joyce) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James...
Author
Publisher
DigiCat
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's '180 Classics You Must Read In Your Lifetime (Vol.2)' is a veritable lexicon of seminal works that have shaped the landscape of world literature. This tome encompasses a diverse array of narrative forms, from the sinuous complexities of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' to the modernist sensibilities of James Joyce's 'Dubliners'. The collection boasts a wide-ranging compilation that includes epics like Homer's 'Iliad & Odyssey',...
Author
Publisher
Musaicum Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the great works of the greatest masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving poetry of words and storylines every person should experience in their lifetime:
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
Dubliners (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the...