Poco noto al pubblico italiano, se non per qualche romanzo storico, il binomio letterario Erckmann-Chatrian ha prodotto numerosi racconti di genere fantastico, che mescolano il...
B. J. Harrison Reads The Invisible Eye
"The physiognomy of this old woman had struck me more than once: her little green eyes, long, thin nose, the immense bouquets of flowers on her shawl, which must have been at...
Emily
Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the world a better place. After falling in love...
The Miller's Daughter
A poignant tale in which Zola highlights the futility of war and the destruction it causes. The happiness and peace of the protagonists is wrecked when Prussian soldiers enter...
Germinal
Germinal(1885) is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece. The novel's central...
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola ( 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the...
The Dream
The Dream (Le rêve ) is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola written in 1888. “The Dream” is a love idyll concerning a poor...
L'assommoir
L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the...
The Masterpiece
"The Masterpiece", as it is entitled in English, is a fictionalised account of the Impressionist circle around Paul Cezanne. Zola, who had become an eminent art critic,...
