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Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

English · Paperback / Softback

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Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume.

Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings - from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the Provençal countryside of the author's childhood - these stories will keep the reader riveted from the beginning to the end and surprise for their modernity.

Contains:
The Attack on the Mill
The Girl Who Loves Me
Rentafoil
Death by Advertising
Story of a Madman
Big Michu
The Way People Die
A Flash in the Pan
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
Priests and Sinners
Fair Exchange
The Haunted House

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Émile Zola

Summary

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume.

Foreword

Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings - from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the Provençal countryside of the author's childhood - these stories will keep the reader riveted from the beginning to the end and surprise for their modernity.

Product details

Authors Emile Zola, Émile Zola
Assisted by Douglas Parmee (Translation), Douglas Parmée (Translation)
Publisher Alma Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2017
 
EAN 9781847496973
ISBN 978-1-84749-697-3
No. of pages 224
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Fiction in translation, naturalist; naturalism; short stories

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