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Doctor Pascal by Emile Zola
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Doctor Pascal is the twentieth and final novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart series. Pascal Rougon has spent his life chronicling the hereditary patterns and illnesses of his family, using medicine to attempt cures, whilst his niece Clotilde places her faith in God. 'There's something of everything th ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, "Germinal" is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelli ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola ; Robert (INT) Peter (TRN); Lethbridge Emile; Collier Zola
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Nana by Emile Zola
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'She was the golden beast, an unconscious force, the very scent of her could bring the world to ruin.' Nana, daughter of a drunk and a laundress, is the Helen of Troy of Paris. A sexually magnetic high-class prostitute and actress, she becomes a celebrity, rapidly conquering society, ruining all men ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
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