Emile Zola was the nineteenth century literary giant with a fierce passion for the truth. A friend of Cezanne and Manet, he started out as a journalist and never lost the desire to hunt down a story; ...
There has always been a suspicion that those who admire or enjoy the novels of Emile Zola do so for the wrong reasons. When he died, a century ago, on , the pseudo-scientific bases ...
Thousands of photographs and equipment belonging to writer’s grandson expected to fetch up to £53,000 at auction Émile Zola is best known as the 19th century French author of celebrated works ...
Emile Zola's life in Médan, in the Paris region, is often perceived too seriously. His life was imagined to be filled with discussions among naturalist writers – Maupassant, Huysmans, Henry Céard, ...
Michael Rosen explores the political, literary and personal tensions in Zola's life during his 11-month exile in Britain as he fled a prison sentence in France. Show more In July 1898, one of France's ...
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We are obliged to exercise judgment, to make selections. Some of it must be taken, some left untouched. This is what we have done in the present edition. We have not, indeed, the presumption to correct Rousseau, or to substitute an expurgated "Emile" for the authentic "Emile."
Originally published in 1762, Emile, or On Education, outlined a process of education that would prevent man from being corrupted by society and instead nurture his natural virtues and goodness.