The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
Learn French with Bilingual Books
Alexandre Dumas, Ambrose Gwinnett, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Charles Perrault, Charlotte Bronte, Daniel Defoe, Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Emile Zola, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert, Guy Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herbert George Wells, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, James Fenimore Cooper, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Jules Verne, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Marcel Proust, Mark Twain, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Maurice LeBlanc, Nikolai Gogol, Oscar Wilde, Prosper Mérimée, René Descartes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, Walter Scott, William Shakespeare
book
Theresa Raquin
Emile Zola
book
Nana
Emile Zola
book
Nana
Emile Zola
book
L'Assomoir, in English
Emile Zola
book
Therese Raquin
Emile Zola
book
Nana
Emile Zola
book
Le Rêve
Emile Zola
book
Edouard Manet
Emile Zola, Natalia Brodskaïa
book
The Best Classics for Christmas : 650 Timeless Masterpieces of World Literature & Christmas Classics to Read During the Holidays
William Shakespeare, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Shelley, John Keats, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth von Arnim, D. H. Lawrence, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, C. S. Lewis, George Weedon Grossmith, H. G. Wells, Willkie Collins, G. K. Chesterton, E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, W. B. Yeats, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, J. M. Barrie, Mark Twain, Jack London, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Walt Whitman, Kahlil Gibran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Lewis Wallace, L. M. Montgomery, Homer, Plato, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jules Verne, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Gaston Leroux, Honoré de Balzac, Stendhal, Voltaire, Charles Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov, Nikolai Gogol, Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dante, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli, Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kalidasa, Válmíki, Laozi, Sun Tzu, Confucius, Cao Xueqin, Princess Der Ling, Inazo Nitobé, Kakuzo Okakura, Soseki Natsume, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Dean Howells, Washington Irving, L. Frank Baum, Theodor Storm, Rudyard Kipling
book
Le Docteur Pascal
Emile Zola
book
Ett blad ur kärlekens bok
Emile Zola
audiobookbook