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The Debacle
Translated with an Introduction by
Leonard Tancock
Zola’s only purely historical work, this
realistic, detailed, and accurate account
of France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian
War is a grim testament to the human
horrors of war.
512 pp. 978-0-14-044280-9 $16.00
The Drinking Den
Translated with an Introduction and
Notes by Robin Buss
Now in a vibrant new translation, this
edition of Zola’s story of a good-hearted
but vulnerable laundress includes Zola’s
response to critics who denounced the
work as immoral. The seventh novel in
Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, this dark and
gritty exploration of working-class life was
a publishing sensation and is widely hailed
as Zola’s masterpiece.
480 pp. 978-0-14-044954-9 $14.00
Germinal
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Roger Pearson
Written to draw attention to the misery
prevailing among the lower class in France
during the Second Empire, Germinal
depicts the grim struggle between capital
and labor in a coal field in northern
France.
512 pp. 978-0-14-044742-2 $10.00
Nana
Translated with an Introduction by
George Holden
An evocation of the corrupt world of the
Second Empire, this story of a prostitute
embodies Zola’s theory that behavior is
predetermined by one’s origin.
472 pp. 978-0-14-044263-2 $11.00
Thérèse Raquin
Translated with an Introduction and Notes
by Robin Buss
This tale of adultery, murder, and revenge,
condemned as pornography when it was
published in 1867, is one of Zola’s earliest
novels.
240 pp. 978-0-14-044944-0 $12.00
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Beowulf
Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and
Glossary by Michael Alexander
This edition presents Anglo-Saxon verse
text on the left-hand page, faced by a page
on which almost every word is glossed.
Succinct footnotes clarify historical and
cultural matters.
272 pp. 978-0-14-043377-7 $14.00
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