Émile Zola
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- The Downfall (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
- Germinal (Magill Book Reviews)
- L'Assommoir (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Doctor Pascal (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Germinal (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Nana (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Thérèse Raquin (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Earth (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- French Long Fiction Since the 1850's (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1740-1890 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Naturalistic Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Thérèse Raquin (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
- Doctor Pascal (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- L'Assommoir (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Earth (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Germinal (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Nana (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Thérèse Raquin (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Staging and Production (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Dramatic Genres (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
- Acting Styles (Critical Survey of Drama, Second Revised Edition)
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- Author: Émile Zola
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Zola was a pioneer in the naturalist school of writing that emerged in the late nineteenth century. In twenty interrelated novels that he wrote between 1871 and 1893, he employed scientific precision and careful attention to descriptive detail to portray the fortunes of individual members of the fictional Rougon-Macquart family. His novels such as Germinal, Nana, La Terre, and L’Assommoir focused on characters from the lower strata of society, describing every aspect of their often sordid lives with vivid and colorful detail....
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