The Franco-Prussian war from Sedan to the Commune - the retreat, the surrender of an army, and Paris burning. Zola walked the battlefield of Sedan before he wrote it, and this was the best-selling volume of the whole Rougon-Macquart, two hundred thousand copies in a year.
Englisch
Thérèse Raquin
Germinal
His Masterpiece : A Painter Defeated by His Own Canvas
Money : L'Argent
Fruitfulness : A Family Against a Barren Paris
Germinal : A Coal Strike in Northern France
Rome : A Priest's Manuscript on the Index
His Excellency : A Minister of the Second Empire
The Rush for the Spoil : Speculation in Haussmann's Paris
Paris : A Brother Making Bombs in a Workshop
The Ladies' Paradise : A Great Paris Store Eating Its Street