de Launay and H. Mitterand (Gallimard Folio); and La Conquête de Plassans, ed. Colette Becker (Livre de Poche). The first English translation, by Ernest Vizetelly, appeared in 1887 (London: Vizetelly and Co.).
Biographies of Zola in English
Brown, Frederick, Zola: A Life (London: Macmillan, 1996).
Hemmings, F. W. J., The Life and Times of Emile Zola (London: Elek, 1977).
Schom, Alan, Emile Zola: A Bourgeois Rebel (New York: Holt, 1986).
Studies of Zola in English
Baguley, David, Naturalist Fiction: The Entropic Vision (Cambridge: CUP, 1990).
—— (ed.), Critical Essays on Emile Zola (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986).
Bloom, Harold (ed.), Emile Zola (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004).
Hemmings, F. W. J., Émile Zola (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966).
Lethbridge, R., and Keefe, T. (eds.), Zola and the Craft of Fiction (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990).
Lukács, György, Studies in European Realism: A Sociological Survey of the Writings of Balzac, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and Others, trans. Edith Bonee; foreword by Roy Pascal (London: Hillway Publishing, 1950).
Mitterand, Henri, Zola, Fiction and Modernity, trans. and ed. Monica Lebron and David Baguley (London: The Émile Zola Society, 2000).
Nelson, Brian (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Zola (Cambridge: CUP, 2007).
—— Zola and the Bourgeoisie: A Study of Themes and Techniques in Les Rougon-Macquart (London: Macmillan, 1983).
Thompson, Hannah (ed.), New Approaches to Zola (London: The Émile Zola Society, 2003).
Walker, Philip, Zola (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985).
Wilson, Angus, Émile Zola: An Introductory Study of His Novels (London: Secker and Warburg, 1952).
Background on the Period
Baguley, David, Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000).
Plessis, Alain, The Rise and Fall of the Second Empire, 1852–1871 (Cambridge: CUP, 1985).
Price, Roger, Napoleon III and the Second Empire (London: Routledge, 1997).
Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics
Zola, Émile, L’Assommoir, trans. Margaret Mauldon, ed. Robert Lethbridge.
—— The Belly of Paris, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— La Bête humaine, trans. Roger Pearson.
—— The Fortune of the Rougons, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— Germinal, trans. Peter Collier, ed. Robert Lethbridge.
—— The Kill, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— The Ladies’ Paradise, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— The Masterpiece, trans. Thomas Walton, revised by Roger Pearson.
—— Money, trans. Valerie Minogue.
—— Nana, trans. Douglas Parmée.
—— Pot Luck, trans. Brian Nelson.
—— Thérèse Raquin, trans. Andrew Rothwell.
THE CONQUEST OF PLASSANS
CHAPTER 1
DÉSIRÉE clapped her hands. She was a girl of fourteen, big for her age, with a laugh like a five-year-old.
‘Maman, Maman!’ she cried. ‘Look at my doll!’
She had got a piece of cloth from her mother and for the last quarter of an hour had been trying to make it into a doll, wrapping it round and round and tying the end tightly with a piece of thread.
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