HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Cousin Bette
Eugénie Grandet
Père Goriot
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
The Flowers of Evil
The Prose Poems and Fanfarlo
BENJAMIN CONSTANT
Adolphe
DENIS DIDEROT
Jacques the Fatalist
The Nun
ALEXANDRE DUMAS (PÈRE)
The Black Tulip
The Count of Monte Cristo
Louise de la Vallière
The Man in the Iron Mask
La Reine Margot
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
ALEXANDRE DUMAS (FILS)
La Dame aux Camélias
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Madame Bovary
A Sentimental Education
Three Tales
VICTOR HUGO
The Essential Victor Hugo
Notre-Dame de Paris
J.-K. HUYSMANS
Against Nature
PIERRE CHODERLOS
Les Liaisons dangereuses
DE LACLOS
MME DE LAFAYETTE
The Princesse de Clèves
GUILLAUME DU LORRIS and JEAN DE MEUN
The Romance of the Rose
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
A Day in the Country and Other Stories
A Life
Bel-Ami
Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories
Pierre et Jean
PROSPER MÉRIMÉE
Carmen and Other Stories
MOLIÈRE
Don Juan and Other Plays
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
BLAISE PASCAL
Pensées and Other Writings
ABBÉ PRÉVOST
Manon Lescaut
JEAN RACINE
Britannicus, Phaedra, and Athaliah
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Collected Poems
EDMOND ROSTAND
Cyrano de Bergerac
MARQUIS DE SADE
The Crimes of Love
The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales
GEORGE SAND
Indiana
MME DE STAËL
Corinne
STENDHAL
The Red and the Black
The Charterhouse of Parma
PAUL VERLAINE
Selected Poems
JULES VERNE
Around the World in Eighty Days
Captain Hatteras
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
VOLTAIRE
Candide and Other Stories
Letters concerning the English Nation
ÉMILE ZOLA
L’Assommoir
The Attack on the Mill
La Bête humaine
La Débâcle
Germinal
The Kill
The Ladies’ Paradise
The Masterpiece
Nana
Pot Luck
Thérèse Raquin
Eirik the Red and Other Icelandic Sagas
The Kalevala
The Poetic Edda
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO
Orlando Furioso
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
The Decameron
GEORG BÜCHNER
Danton’s Death, Leonce and Lena, and Woyzeck
LUIS VAZ DE CAMÕES
The Lusiads
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Exemplary Stories
CARLO COLLODI
The Adventures of Pinocchio
DANTE ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy
Vita Nuova
LOPE DE VEGA
Three Major Plays
J. W. VON GOETHE
Elective Affinities
Erotic Poems
Faust: Part One and Part Two
The Flight to Italy
JACOB and WILHELM
Selected Tales
GRIMM
E. T. A. HOFFMANN
The Golden Pot and Other Tales
HENRIK IBSEN
An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Rosmersholm
Four Major Plays
Peer Gynt
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Selections from the Notebooks
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Four Major Plays
MICHELANGELO
Life, Letters, and Poetry
BUONARROTI
PETRARCH
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
J. C. F. SCHILLER
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart
JOHANN AUGUST
Miss Julie and Other Plays
STRINDBERG
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LUDOVICO ARIOSTO
Orlando Furioso
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO
The Decameron
LUÍS VAZ DE CAMÕES
The Lusíads
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Exemplary Stories
CARLO COLLODI
The Adventures of Pinocchio
DANTE ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy
Vita Nuova
LOPE ÐE VEGA
Three Major Plays
J. W. VON GOETHE
Faust: Part One and Part Two
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Selections from the Notebooks
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Four Major Plays
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI
Discourses on Livy
The Prince
MICHELANGELO
Life, Letters, and Poetry
PETRARCH
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
GIORGIO VASARI
The Lives of the Artists
ANTON CHEKHOV
About Love and Other Stories
Early Stories
Five Plays
The Princess and Other Stories
The Russian Master and Other Stories
The Steppe and Other Stories
Twelve Plays
Ward Number Six and Other Stories
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
Crime and Punishment
Devils
A Gentle Creature and Other Stories
The Idiot
The Karamazov Brothers
Memoirs from the House of the Dead
Notes from the Underground and The Gambler
NIKOLAI GOGOL
Dead Souls
Plays and Petersburg Tales
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
Eugene Onegin
The Queen of Spades and Other Stories
LEO TOLSTOY
Anna Karenina
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
The Raid and Other Stories
Resurrection
War and Peace
IVAN TURGENEV
Fathers and Sons
First Love and Other Stories
A Month in the Country
Travel Writing 1700–1830
Women’s Writing 1778–1838
WILLIAM BECKFORD
Vathek
JAMES BOSWELL
Life of Johnson
FRANCES BURNEY
Camilla
Cecilia
Evelina
The Wanderer
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Lord Chesterfield’s Letters
JOHN CLELAND
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
DANIEL DEFOE
A Journal of the Plague Year
Robinson Crusoe
Roxana
HENRY FIELDING
Jonathan Wild
Joseph Andrews and Shamela
Tom Jones
WILLIAM GODWIN
Caleb Williams
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar o
f Wakefield
MARY HAYS
Memoirs of Emma Courtney
ELIZABETH INCHBALD
A Simple Story
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The History of Rasselas
The Major Works
CHARLOTTE LENNOX
The Female Quixote
MATTHEW LEWIS
Journal of a West India Proprietor
The Monk
HENRY MACKENZIE
The Man of Feeling
ALEXANDER POPE
Selected Poetry
ANN RADCLIFFE
The Italian
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Romance of the Forest
A Sicilian Romance
CLARA REEVE
The Old English Baron
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Pamela
RICHARD BRINSLEY
The School for Scandal and Other Plays
SHERIDAN
TOBIAS SMOLLETT
The Adventures of Roderick Random
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
LAURENCE STERNE
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
A Sentimental Journey
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver’s Travels
Major Works
A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Relapse and Other Plays
HORACE WALPOLE
The Castle of Otranto
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Mary and The Wrongs of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1 In the preface to the first novel of the series, The Fortune of the Rougons.
2 ‘Napoleon II never governed, the First Empire being replaced by the Bourbon Restoration in 1814.
3 L’Union générale, sa vie, sa mort, son programme (1888).
4 In the journal Le Figaro (1896), collected in Nouvelle campagne (1897), 203–14.
5 These included: Mirecourt’s La Bourse, ses abus et ses mystères (1858), Ernest Feydeau’s Mémoires d’un coulissier (1873), Proudhon’s Manuel du spéculateur à la Bourse (1854, 1857), and Henri Cozic’s La Bourse mise à la portée de tous (1885).
6 Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, ch. 44 (World’s Classics edition, 1982).
7 Ibid., ch. 30.
8 In the Pléiade edition of Les Rougon-Macquart, vol. 5, p. 1242.
9 He is briefly mentioned in The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris), has a very minor role in La Joie de vivre, and is briefly recalled in Dr Pascal.
10 Archduke Maximilian of Austria, sent to be emperor of a (conquered) Mexico.
11 Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 229.
12 Gallois, in Zola: The History of Capitalism (Berne: Peter Lang, 2000), 119.
13 Zola drew largely on Schaeffle, La Quintessence du socialisme (1886), and Georges Renard, ‘Le Socialisme actuel en France’, La Revue socialiste (1887–8).
14 But the ideas of those papers are perhaps partly realized in Toil (1901), the second of Zola’s Four Gospels.