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Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

Émile Zola

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .No!" furiously. Vandeuvres left the bedroom, smiling and without further pressing her, and the moment he was gone she had an access of melting tenderness, threw herself into Daguenet's arms and cried out:

"Ah, my sweetie, there's only you in the world. I love you! YES, I love you from the bottom of my heart! Oh, it would be too nice if we could always live together. My God! How unfortunate women are!"

Then her eye fell upon Georges, who, seeing them kiss, was growing very red, and she kissed him too. Sweetie could not be jealous of a baby! She wanted Paul and Georges always to agree, because it would be so nice for them all three to stay like that, knowing all the time that they loved one another very much. But an extraordinary noise disturbed them: someone was snoring in the room. Whereupon after some searching they perceived Bordenave, who, since taking his coffee, must have comfortably installed himself there. He was sleeping on two chairs, his he. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Listened the the LibraVox version of 'The Flood' - still harrowing, an incredibly vivid recounting of a killer flood. Zola writes with such force - images and impressions remain.

Contains the complete 1880 novel NANA and three other stories

This collection is a bit mis-titled, thus my headline. If Zola's writing still has the power to shock readers in 2020, it's not difficult to understand why his work was so scandalous during his lifetime. Here is French Naturalism at its mo

Nana's story was boring. i had a hard time reading it. The other stories were good, especially The Death of Olivier Becaille.

To begin with, Nana by Emile Zola is not a short story: It is a full-fledged novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, and a good one. As I have read it twice in the past, I will confine my comments to the three short tales that follow.

"The Mill-Keeper's Daughter" is a tale of the Franco-Prussian War tha

If i were to rate each story individually ...

the flood - 3.5 stars - very long, but great characters

the miller's daughter - 3.0 - meh.

captain burle - 3.0 - meh again.

death of oliver becaille - 4.0 - loved this one!

It should've been called "Nana and other stories" because almost all the book is the Nana story. And about Nana: It's quite a contemporary book, now in this feminist society. I'd love it if Zola would've talked a little bit more about how a woman "like that", a courtesan risen up from the slums fits

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