Category: Novels
The public and the press have agreed that "L'Assommoir" is M. Zola's _chef d'œuvre_. Against this verdict I have no objection to offer. I believe it will meet with posterity's endorsement. But although "L'Assommoir" may lift its head the highest, there are many other volumes i...
The well-defined, galling desire which had risen to Renée's heart amid the troublous perfumes of the conservatory, while Maxime and Louise laughed on a couch of the little butte...
3. CHAPTER II.Aristide Rougon swooped down upon Paris on the morrow of the Coup d'État, with that scent of birds of prey which sniff the field of carnage from afar. He came from Plassans, a s...
6. CHAPTER VI.There was a fancy dress ball at the Saccards' on the Mid-Lent Thursday. The great curiosity, however, was the poem of the "Amours of handsome Narcissus and the nymph Echo" in th...
2. CHAPTER I.On the return home, the carriage could only move slowly along amidst the mass of vehicles winding round the lake of the Bois de Boulogne. At one moment, the block became such th...
4. CHAPTER III.Maxime remained at the college of Plassans until the holidays of 1854. He was thirteen years and a few months old and had just passed through the fifth class. It was then that h...
7. CHAPTER VII.Three months later, on one of those gloomy spring mornings which bring back into Paris the dimness and dirty dampness of winter, Aristide Saccard alighted from his carriage at t...
1. CHAPTER VII.The public and the press have agreed that "L'Assommoir" is M. Zola's _chef d'œuvre_. Against this verdict I have no objection to offer. I believe it will meet with posterity's e...