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19%OFFÉmile Zola - La Débâcle: (reissue) - 9780198801894 - V9780198801894
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La Débâcle: (reissue)

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Description for La Débâcle: (reissue) Paperback. La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. Editor(s): Lethbridge, Robert. Translator(s): Dorday, Elinor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
'My title speaks not merely of war, but also of the crumbling of a regime and the end of a world.' Émile Zola The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Débâcle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Débâcle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198801894
SKU
V9780198801894
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Ref
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About Émile Zola
Elinor Dorday studied French and Russian at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and translation at the British Institute in Paris (University of London). Robert Lethbridge was the seventh Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 2005 - 2013. He has edited Zola's L'Assommoir and Germinal for Oxford World's Classics.

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