The Debacle
(1870-71)
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1973
Summary
Robin Buss’s acclaimed translation vividly brings Zola’s descriptions to life in clear, contemporary English.
Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140442809 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140442804 |
| Author: | Émile Zola, Leonard Tancock |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1973 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Émile Zola
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist and critic, the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Among Zola’s most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893), which included such novels as L’Assomoir (1877), about the suffering of the Parisian working-class, Nana (1880), dealing with prostitution, and Germinal (1885).
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