Unique to Ămile Zola's characteristic writing style , "The Dream" feels like a fairy tale among the rest of "Rougon-Macquart" series. It reveals the story of the orphan AngĂ©lique Marie: a nine year old girl, homeless, starving , adopted by a couple of embroiderers. From this moment on, her life continues like a dream. She grows up in the shadow of the church, St. Agnes in Beaumont, France, enthralled by the tales of the saints . Her dream is to be saved by a handsome prince and to live happily ever after. But is AngĂ©lique going to meet her knight in shining armor or this only happens in fairy tales? Read on and find out in this magical tale.
Ămile Zola (1840 â 1902) was awas an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
