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Seeps into your insides Kate Winslet one never reads Zola without being drawn into the sharp-edged cinema noir ... The greatest of all the journalist-novelists. Daily Telegraph
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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.
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a scam! DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION!!!,
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This is a 1901 abridged translation done by one of Zola's detractors. It has none of Zola's powerful descriptions of Thérèse and Laurent's temperaments, nothing that was considered scandalous over a century ago (and that makes the book worth reading). It is LITERALLY half the length it should be and it reads like a children book no child would ever want to read because it's boring.
The scam is that it looks like a new edition. Nowhere in the on-line description does it say that it is a reprint of a 1901 translation (hence public domain for unscrupulous printers). DO NOT BUY IT IF YOU WANT TO READ ZOLA, DO NOT BUY IT IF YOU LIKE LITERATURE.
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- Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner on page 152, and page 154
- Therese Raquin by Emile Zola in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz on page 61, and page 65
- A Zola Dictionary by J. G. Patterson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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