# Emile Zola

Author: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/728

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Emile+Zola+Howells&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as true a perspective forms itself as any in the past. A few weeks after the death of a poet of such great epical imagination, such great ethical force, as Emile Zola, we may see him as clearly and judge him as fairly as posterity alone was formerly supposed able to see and to judge the heroes that antedated it. The present is always holding in solution the elements of the future and the past, in fact; and whilst Zola still lived, in the moments of his highest activity, the love and hate, the int...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/emile-zola-728/chapters/1/index.md)