"La Bête humaine" est un roman captivant d'Émile Zola publié au XIXe siècle. L'histoire suit la vie de Jacques Lantier, un mécanicien de locomotive obsédé par la violence et la mort. Lorsque Jacques tombe amoureux de la femme d'un collègue, sa vie devient de plus en plus chaotique et sombre. Le livre explore la psychologie complexe des personnages, en particulier celle de Jacques, qui est hanté par des pulsions meurtrières qu'il ne peut...

Living in the pleasure-loving society of Napoleon III's France is a beautiful, capricious, good-natured yet noxious prostitute named Nana. For her, rich men give up their fortunes and honor; poor men give up their mates and even their lives.

"'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.' Set in the fictitious Provencal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvere and Miette, two idealistic young supporters of the republican resistance to Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat in December 1851. They join the woodcutters and peasants of the Var to seize...

The story of Gervaise Macquart, running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry in one of the seedier areas of the city. The novel considered one of Zola's masterpieces, a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris. It established Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world.

Florent, a social idealist, returns to Paris after escaping from a penal colony in Cayenne, whence he had been deported after being wrongly arrested for resistance to the coup d'état of December 1851. He lodges with his half‐brother Quenu, who now runs a prosperous delicatessen business with his wife Lisa, the daughter of Antoine Macquart. When Florent, dreaming of a just society, involves himself in a plot against the Empire, Lisa contributes...

During the Second Empire, Etienne Lantier experiences the miserable life of the coal miners in northern France and enters the struggle between capital and labor.

Paris (1898) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Paris is the final installment in Zola's celebrated Three Cities Trilogy. Published toward the end of Zola's career, the trilogy is an ambitious, sweeping study of one man's struggle with faith in political, religious, and social life. Following his protagonist Abbé Pierre Froment, Zola provides a striking portrait of the soul of modern man in crisis with itself and with an ever-changing world....

Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press.

The Silent Killer was written for anyone who battles with anxieties, emotional depression, oppression, mood swings, and many other disorders that come with many different types of complications on a day-to-day basis that often overwhelm one trying to balance their day-to-day life. This book is dedicated to the sufferers who are now, or have in the past, enduring the Silent Killer symptoms that cause great discomfort and disruption to their lives. Having...

The incestuous affair of Renee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renee's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris swiftly becoming a modern metropolis and "the capital of the nineteenth century." In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair.