# The Attack on the Mill, and Other Sketches of War

Author: Zola, Émile, 1840-1902; Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63382

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Attack+on+the+Mill%2C+and+Other+Sketches+of+War+Zola&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is by his huge novels, and principally by those of the _Rougon-Macquart_ series, that M. Zola is known to the public and to the critics. Nevertheless, he has found time during the thirty years of his busy literary career to publish about as many small stories, now comprised in four separate volumes. It is natural that his novels should present so very much wider and more attractive a subject for analysis that, so far as I can discover, even in France no critic has hitherto taken the shorter productions separately, and discussed M. Zola as a maker of _contes_. Yet there is a very distinct interest in seeing how such a thunderer or bellower on the trumpet can breathe through silver, and,...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-attack-on-the-mill-and-other-sketches-of-war-63382/chapters/8/index.md)