In a quiet rural village in late-nineteenth-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in ou
In this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, the master French realist has created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last despera
Little known in this country, The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is one of Emile Zola's most descriptive, humorous, and exciting fictions. In this novel the author of Germinal, L'Assommoir, Nan,
