"For a long time I used to go to bed early." The first two volumes in Proust's seven volume...
Anna Karenin
With Anna Karenin, Tolstoy's most perfect work, the psychological novel of the nineteenth century...
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the...
Rudin
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are...
The Late Mattia Pascal
Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello is among the most teasing and profound of modern masters and...
Madame Bovary
With Madame Bovary Flaubert established the realistic novel in France. Yet he always refused to...
Nana
Perhaps Zola's most famous novel, Nana is an evocation of the glittering, corrupt world of the...
L’Assommoir
"I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere...
Thérèse Raquin
Thanks to our guest reviewer, Kenny Campbell. "I was familiar with Zola's later career, and knew...