Émile Zola (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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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. His...

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