The "Assommoir.": (The Prelude to "Nana.") A Realistic NovelPresents the seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle -- the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. |
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Page 3 - This book is one of the most readable that has appeared for many a day. Few Englishmen know so much of old and modern Paris as Mr. Sala."— Truth.
Page viii - It is like finding truth for the first time. .-'Zola is one of the most moral novelists in France, and it is really astonishing how anyone can doubt this. He makes us note the smell of vice, not its perfume ; his nude figures are those of the anatomical table, which do not inspire the slightest immoral thought ; there is not one of his books, not even the crudest, that does not leave behind it pure, firm, and unmistakable aversion, or scorn, for the base passions of which he treats.
Page 4 - THE AMUSING ADVENTURES OF GUZMAN OF ALFARAQUE. A SPANISH NOVEL. TRANSLATED BY EDWARD LOWDELL. ILLUSTRATED WITH HIGHLY-FINISHED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL FROM DESIGNS BY STAHL. "The wit, vivacity and variety of this masterpiece cannot be over-estimated.
Page 4 - Had the most daring of our sensational Novelists put forth the present plain unvarnished statement of facts as a work of fiction, it would have been denounced as so violating all probabilities as to be a positive insult to the common sense of the reader. Yet strange, startling, incomprehensible as is the narrative which the author has here evolved, every word of it is...
Page vi - After reading Zola's novels it seems as if in all others, even in the truest, there were a veil between the reader and the things described, and there is present to our minds the same difference as exists between the representations of human faces on canvas and the reflection of the same faces in a mirror. It is like finding truth for the first time.
Page 8 - Illustrated with 350 Engravings, FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHS, ANCIENT MSS., EARLY PRINTED BOOKS, RARE PRINTS, CARICATURES, ETC.
Page 1 - DUTCH PICTURES, and PICTURES DONE WITH A QUILL. Illustrated with a Frontispiece and other Page Engravings. FORMING THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE CHOICER MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. A SMALL NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE ABOVE WORK HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN DEMY OCTAVO, ON HAND-MADE PAPER. WITH THE ILLUSTRATIONS ON INDIA PAPER MOUNTED. The Graphic remarks : " We have received a sumptuous new edition of Mr. GA Sala's wellknown 'Dutch Pictures." It is printed on rough paper, and is enriched with many...
Page 4 - Public; and comprising a Sketch of the Life of the Countess de la Motte, pretended Confidant of Marie Antoinette, and Particulars of the Careers of the other Actors in this remarkable Drama.
Page viii - Brutally, pitilessly, and without hypocrisy he exposes vice, nude, and holds it up to ridicule, standing so far off from it that he does not graze it with his garments. Forced by his hand, it is Vice itself that says " Detest me and pass by ! " His novels, he himself says, are really