Therese Raquin is the story of a young woman mired in a loveless marriage to a sickly, self-centered man. Trapped in a house owned by her pitiless mother-in-law, she yearns for love and escape. She finds it in the arms of her husband's best friend--and the only way they can find happiness is through murder. What follows is the stuff of nightmares. Emile Zola's story is as vibrant today as it was when it was written 150 years ago. Scorned by critics for the perversity and violence of his characters, Zola nonetheless went on to be one of the greatest and most popular writers in the history of literature. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture, Therese Raquin is a compelling and modern story of guilt and its consequences. This edition is amplified by an important introduction by Stephen R. Pastore, one of the world's leading Zola scholars and the addition of material for use by Book Discussion Groups as well as the Movie Tie-In edition.

Therese Raquin

Literature & Fiction

Émile, Zola

Dramas & Plays

Emile Zola Society

La Confession de Claude (Claude's Confession) was Emile Zola's first novel and his first attempt at what he would later call an "Experimental Novel." Published in Paris in 1865, it was quickly banned in the United States and Great Britain and was not translated into English for several decades. This is the first translation in nearly 150 years with an insightful and thought-provoking Introduction by one of the world's leading Emile Zola scholars, Stephen R. Pastore, who has dedicated himself to introducing Zola to a new generation of English-speaking readers all over the world, particularly in the United States.

Claude's Confession

Zolá, Emile

The Dream

It is with great excitement in the world of literature that Grand Oak Books Publishing, Ltd., is producing the first uniform edition of the works of Emile Zola. The first of a twenty volume series, The translation of The Fortune of the Rougons is fresh and startling and sets the tone for the rest of the saga.

The Fortune Of The Rougons

The first volume of four in the complete set, this is the first time that the vast and varied collection of Emile Zola's short fiction is brought together in a uniform edition specially presented for the American reader.

The Complete Short Stories of Emile Zola, Vol 1.

Zola, Aemile

Genre Fiction

The 16th book in the famous Rougon -Macquart cycle by Emile Zola. With a fresh translation and introduction by one of the world's leading Zola scholars.

Literary

Zola's classic story of an old man who, forced to divide his property among his children, is cruelly harassed by them for what little else remains. The theme, as simple yet as complex as the earth itself, hums with the intrigue of subplots carefully dovetailed into the narrative and constantly arrests the reader with fascinating insights into the motivations of the characters.

The Earth

Classics

Grand Oak Books in conjunction with The Emile Zola Society is pleased to announce the publication of Emile Zola's monumental series, The Rougon Macquart Cycle. Translated from French to English, many with previously unpublished passages,complete and uncensored for American audiences, the set is a groundbreaking standard for the study of Zola outside France.

The Belly of Paris

Zola's classic tale about Gervaise Macquart, featured in the first novel in the series, The Fortune of the Rougons, and her escape to Paris to work amongst the lower class in a laundry. The novel chronicles Gervaise's life, including marriage, opening her own business, and having children, and later the downward trajectory of her time in Paris. This being one of Zola's most famous novels, his shocking descriptions of conditions in working-class 19th-century Paris garnered him further fame and recognition. Saloon remains one of the most important works of French literature.

Saloon

Zola's classic novel about young priest Serge Mouret as he takes his orders and becomes the parish priest for the disinterested village of Artauds. The inbred villagers do not care for Mouret, and he is forced to contemplate religious affairs and the extent of his faith. Eventually he has a complete nervous breakdown and collapses into a near-comatose state, whereupon suffering from amnesia and total long-term memory loss, with no idea who or where he is beyond his first name, he falls for and uneducated girl who has been left to grow up practically alone. As with most Zola novels, heartache and despair are the driving forces behind Mouret's further decisions.

The Sin of Father Mouret

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Therese Raquin

Claude's Confession

The Dream

The Fortune Of The Rougons

The Complete Short Stories of Emile Zola, Vol 1.

The Dream

The Earth

The Belly of Paris

Saloon

The Sin of Father Mouret