Author
Émile Zola
1840–1902 3 volumes Gothic & Horror · Salon & Steppe
The life
Émile Zola was a French novelist and the leader of naturalism, who planned the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle to trace heredity and environment through one family under the Second Empire. He researched like a reporter, going down mines and riding locomotives. In 1898 he published J'Accuse…!, the open letter that reopened the Dreyfus affair, and fled to England to escape prison for it.
Where to start
Thérèse Raquin
224 pages — the shortest way into Zola, not the greatest.
This volume, “Thérèse Raquin,” was Zola’s third book, but it was the one that first gave him notoriety, and made him somebody, as the saying goes.
Paintings from these volumes
In the library