Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

by Émile Zola, Douglas Parmée (Translator)

Overview

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 Provençal 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847496973
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Émile Zola (1840–1902) is the foremost representative of the Naturalist school, and is best remembered for Thérèse Raquin and his twenty-novel cycle, The Rougon-Macquarts.