During a chance meeting on the train from Venice to Paris, a stranger asks Justin Calmar to...
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...
Rudin
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are...
The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By
Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Until the day he discovers that his...
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...
Gigi & The Cat
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best....