Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

Unique collection of short stories

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

About the author

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
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 31.12.2017
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781847496973
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-697-3
• Pages: 272
• Dimensions (packing): 11.6 x 18.8 x 0.8 cm
• Subjects: Fiction in translation; naturalist; naturalism; short stories