Name: Attack on the Mill and Other Stories, Paperback/Emile Zola
Brand: Alma Books
Price: 64.99 RON
Availability: InStock

Descriere & specificații

Description 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 Proven al 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 (1840-1902) is the foremost representative of the Naturalist school, and is best remembered for Thérčse Raquin and his twenty-novel cycle, The Rougon-Macquarts.