Émile Zola (1840–1902) is represented here by 21 public-domain titles, including Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Doctor Pascal, and For a Night of Love. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here.
La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons), originally published, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The Fortune of the Rougons is partly an origin story, with a large cast of characters - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III.
L'Assommoir [lasɔmwaʁ], published as a serial, and in book form, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.
Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal) is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, first published in June by Charpentier. Zola's plan for the Rougon-Macquart novels was to show how heredity and environment worked on the members of one family over the course of the Second Empire.
The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel is the fifteenth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. The action takes place in a rural community in the Beauce, an area in central France south of Paris.
