Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He died in Paris from carbon monoxide poisoning -- the victim of a stopped-up chimney -- a few months before Dreyfus was officially exonerated.
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Thérèse Raquin
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La fortune des Rougon
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Au bonheur des dames
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La terre
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Lourdes
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Le ventre de Paris
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Therese Raquin
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La curée
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Débâcle
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Les Rougon-Macquart: histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le second Empire
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Le docteur Pascal
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L' argent
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L' oeuvre
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Son Excellence Eugène Rougon
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Fécondité
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La faute de l'abbé Mouret
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La joie de vivre
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The Dream
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Le rêve
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La débâcle
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Zola par lui-même
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Docteur Pascal
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La conquête de Plassans
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The kill
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Le roman expérimental
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Vérité
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Terre
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La Debacle
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His Masterpiece
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Paris
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Œuvre
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La faute de l'abbe Mouret
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Rome
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La Bete Humaine
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J'accuse
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Travail
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La débacle
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A love episode
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Nos auteurs dramatiques
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Madeleine Férat
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Ventre de Paris: (Le Ventre de Paris)
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Correspondance
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Contes à Ninon
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His Excellency
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L' affaire Dreyfus: La vérité en marche
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La cure e
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Le naturalisme au théâtre: les théories et les exemples.
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The re se Raquin
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La vérité en marche
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Les mystères de Marseille
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Les romanciers naturalistes
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Drunkard
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L' œuvre
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Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
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Zola photographe: 480 documents
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Restless house
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The Fat and the Thin (Le Ventre de Paris)
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The dram-shop: <L'assommoir>
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Documents littéraires: études et portraits.
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The experimental novel: and other essays.
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Nouvelle campagne, 1896
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Mystères de Marseille: a novel
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Conquête de Plassans: or The priest in the house ; a realistic novel
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The attack on the mill: and other sketches of war
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The Three Cities Trilogy--rome: Rome
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The Three Cities
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Le capitaine Burle: Comment on meurt; Pour une nuit d'amour; Aux champs; La fête à Coqueville; L'inondation.
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Le Reve
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Zola contre Zola: erotika naturalistes des Rougon-Macquart
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Naïs Micoulin: Nantas. La mort d'Olivier Bécaille. Madame Neigeon. Les coquillages de M. Chabre. Jacques Damour.
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The belly of Paris
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Piping hot!: (Pot-bouille.) A realistic novel.
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Rome
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Contes et nouvelles
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Ladies' delight
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The attack on the mill and other stories
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Nana Volume II
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Nana Volume I
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For a night of love
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La confession de Claude
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Claude's confession
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Mon salon: Manet, écrits sur l'art
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Pot luck
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La Fête à Coqueville
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The Honour of the Army, and Other Stories: a
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Œuvres complètes
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Piping hot! (Pot-bouille): a realistic novel
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The joy of life: (la joie de vivre)
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La république en marche: chroniques parlementaires 13 février 1871-16 septembre 1871.
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The Experimental Novel And Other Essays
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Fruitfulness (Fécondité)
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La fabrique des Rougon-Macquart: édition des dossiers préparatoires
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His Excellency Eugène Rougon: a realistic novel
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