- French language, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
La Teuse, en entrant, posa son balai et son plumeau contre l'autel. Elle s'etait attardee a mettre en train la lessive du semestre. Elle traversa l'eglise pour sonner l'Angelus, boitant davantage dans sa hate, bousculant les bancs.
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Earnest, contemplative, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Émile Zola
- First published
- 1908
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Bookking International, Pocket, Gallimard
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9782253005599
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Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He die
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