Downfall
Downfall
Germinal
Germinal
Damskoe schaste
V Parizhe otkrylsja pervyj universalnyj magazin dlja zhenschin: nastojaschij volshebnyj mir, v kotorom tak legko poterjat golovu. Pri vide vitrin 'Damskogo schastja' redkaja predstavitelnitsa prekrasnogo pola ustoit ot iskushenija stat obladatelnitsej vsego predstavlennogo tam velikolepija. Shirokie lenty dorogikh kruzhev, gotovye narjady iz shelka, barkhata i kashemira - zdes mozhno podobrat sebe ljubuju vesch po vkusu! Junaja Deniza Bodju ne verit, chto okazhetsja po druguju storonu prilavka. Postupiv v magazin prodavschitsej, ona uporno karabkaetsja k tseli - sdelat kareru, chtoby soderzhat svoikh bratev. A ved na samom dele vse zhenschiny khotjat odnogo - ljubit i byt ljubimymi. Khozjain univermaga neravnodushen k Denize, no Deniza tochno znaet: istorija Zolushki vsego lish skazka. No inogda, khotja i redko, skazka mozhet stat javju.
Chrevo Parizha. Radost zhizni
Emil Zolja - odin iz stolpov mirovoj realisticheskoj literatury, osnovopolozhnik i teoretik naturalizma, uvlechennyj issledovatel povsednevnosti, strastnyj pravozaschitnik i publitsist, povlijavshij na vse realisticheskoe napravlenie literatury XX veka i prezhde vsego na shkolu 'novoj zhurnalistiki': Trumena Kapote, Toma Vulfa, Normana Mejlera. Ego samyj izvestnyj trud - epokhalnyj dvadtsatitomnyj tsikl 'Rugon-Makkary', raskryvajuschij pered chitatelem beskonechnuju panoramu chelovecheskikh porokov i dobrodetelej v dekoratsijakh Vtoroj imperii. Eto podlinnaja entsiklopedija zhizni Parizha i frantsuzskoj provintsii na primere neskolkikh pokolenij odnoj semi, rodivshej samye strannye plody. V nastojaschee illjustrirovannoe izdanie voshli romany, zanimajuschie, soglasno predpisannomu avtorom porjadku chtenija, odinnadtsatoe i dvenadtsatoe mesto v tsikle. 'Chrevo Parizha' - odin iz samykh znamenitykh romanov tsikla. Napisannyj v 1873 godu i v tom zhe godu izdannyj v Rossii, roman
Germinal
Germinal
La Terre
La Terre
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin
Damskoe schaste
'Damskoe schaste' - pervyj v Parizhe (a znachit, i vo vsem mire) universalnyj magazin dlja dam. Pena kruzhev, volny shelkov i barkhata, tonkij aromat dukhov i blesk ukrashenij, pokazy mod, svjaschennodejstvie v primerochnykh, azhiotazh i sutoloka rasprodazh - kak legko poterjat zdes golovu! No junaja Deniza Bodju, ustroivshis v roskoshnyj magazin prodavschitsej, krepko derzhit sebja v rukakh. Umnaja, s bezukoriznennoj delovoj khvatkoj, eta devushka uporno karabkaetsja vverkh po karernoj lestnitse 'Damskogo s chastja' i odnazhdy privlekaet vnimanie khozjaina, blistatelnogo Oktava Mure...
Karera Rugonov
Emil Zolja (1840-1902) - odin iz stolpov mirovoj realisticheskoj literatury, predvoditel literaturnogo dvizhenija naturalizma, uvlechennyj publitsist i pravozaschitnik i strastnyj issledovatel povsednevnosti. Ego samyj izvestnyj trud - epokhalnyj dvadtsatitomnyj tsikl 'Rugon-Makkary', raspakhivajuschij pered chitatelem beskonechnuju panoramu chelovecheskikh porokov i dobrodetelej v dekoratsijakh Vtoroj imperii, entsiklopedija zhizni Parizha i frantsuzskoj provintsii na materiale neskolkikh pokolenij odnoj semi, rodivshej samye strannye plody V svoem pervom romane 'Karera Rugonov' (1871), napisannom nakanune vojny s Prussiej i parizhskoj Kommuny, avtor protivopostavljaet junykh idealistov Silvera i ego podrugu Mettu s ikh revoljutsionnoj strastju, chistotoj poryva, i tekh, kto rvetsja k vlasti. Eti ljudi ozabocheny lish tem, kak 'prodat sebja vozmozhno dorozhe', oni gotovy perejti na storonu tekh, kto schedro voznagradit v chas torzhestva.
Tereza Raken
Provintsialnaja krasavitsa Terez Raken, prozjabajuschaja v neschastlivom brake so svoim kuzenom, bezvolnym, skuchnym i melkim burzhua, mechtaet o bolshoj ljubvi.Odnako kogda v ee zhizni pojavljaetsja Loran, vse nepostizhimym obrazom menjaetsja.Mezhdu nimi vspykhivaet strast, a vmeste s nej - prikhodit nadezhda na novuju, jarkuju zhizn...No na puti ljubovnikov stoit nepreodolimoe prepjatstvie - muzh Terezy. Rano ili pozdno, on vse uznaet. Chto ikh zhdet? I na chto oni gotovy pojti radi schastja?
Therese Raquin
Therese Raquin
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)
Now the basis for the major BBC tv adaptation The Paradise, this is a lavish drama and a timeless commentary on consumer capitalism. The Penguin Classics edition of Émile Zola's The Ladies' Delight is based on an acclaimed, vivid and modern transl...
Ladies' Paradise
Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society - obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification - Ladies' Delight vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around...
Germinal
Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern France Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever bu...
Thérèse Raquin
Perhaps his most famous work, Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin is a dark and gripping story of lust, violence and guilt, set in the gloomy back streets of Paris. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes and an introduction by Robin Buss. ...
Thérèse Raquin
A gripping psychological thriller adapted for the stage by Émile Zola himself from his own notorious novel, in a version by Nicholas Wright. Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls passionately for another...
Ladies' Paradise
Zola's prophetic celebration of unbridled commerce and consumerism, "The Ladies' Paradise" ("Au bonheur des dames", 1883) recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the ...
Nana
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Théâtre des Variétés. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes ...
Drinking Den
Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an intro...
Debacle
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hat...
Zola: Thérèse Raquin
A gothic tale of murder and adultery, Thérèse Raquin was denounced as pornography on its publication in 1867. "Putrid literature" was how Louis Ulbach described the novel in a contemporary review. Zola defended himself against these atta...
The Bright Side of Life
'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.' Orphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with h...
Thérèse Raquin
Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisf...
Germinal
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which...
The Ladies' Paradise
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 emblemati...
The Kill
'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourho...
The Belly of Paris
'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innoce...
The Fortune of the Rougons
'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provençal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the st...
His Excellency Eugène Rougon
'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.' His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and ...
Money
'The irresistible power of money, a lever that can lift the world. Love and money are the only things.' Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and ...
Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)
This new translation of Zola's most acerbic social satire captures the directness and robustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made avai...
Beast Within
His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics. Roubaud is consumed b...
La Bête humaine
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a com...
