These works of Zola are arranged by type in alphabetical order. Also see
- Publication Chronology
- Recommended Reading Order for the Rougon-Macquart cycle.
Novels
- La Confession de Claude (1865) The Confessions of Claude
- Madeleine Férat (1868 or 1869)
- Les Mystères de Marseille (1867) The Mysteries of Marseilles
- Thérèse Raquin (1867)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Excerpt
- Commentary by Jonathan
- Commentary by Nancy
- Le Voeu d’une morte (1866) A Dead Woman’s Wish
Les Rougon-Macquart (The Rougon-Macquart Cycle)
- L’Argent (Money) (1891)
- Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- L’Assommoir (The Dram Shop/The Gin Palace/Drink/Drunkard) (1877)
- La Bête humaine (The Beast in the Man/The Human Beast/The Monomaniac) (1890)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies’ Paradise/Shop Girls of Paris/Ladies’ Delight) (1883)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Commentary by Rachel Cordasco
- Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
- La Conquête de Plassans (The Conquest of Plassans/A Priest in the House) (1874)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Exceptional Excerpt by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- La Curée (The Kill) (1871-2 / 1874)
- Commentary by Emma
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Excerpt by Jonathan
- Plot summary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
- Guest review by Keith Bresnahan at Eiger, Monch & Jungfrau
- La Débâcle (The Downfall/The Smash-up/The Debacle) (1892)
- Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal) (1893)
- Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (His Excellency Eugene Rougon/ His Excellency) (1876)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Exceptional Excerpt by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Thoughts on the 2018 Brian Nelson translation by Lisa Hill (ANZ Litlovers)
- La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret/Abbe Mouret’s Transgression) (1875)
- La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons) (1871)
- Germinal (1885)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Excerpt
- Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
- La Joie de vivre (The Joys of Living/Joy of Life/How Jolly Life Is/Zest for Life) (1884)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Excerpt by Jonathan
- Nana (1880)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- L’Œuvre (The Masterpiece/A Masterpiece/His Masterpiece) (1886)
- Une Page d’amour (A Lesson in Love/A Love Episode/A Page of Love/A Love Affair) (1878)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Excerpt by Jonathan
- Pot-Bouille (Pot Luck/Restless House/Piping Hot) (1882)
- Le Rêve (The Dream) (1888)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Remarks by Nancy
- La Terre (The Earth/The Soil) (1887)
- Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- Remarks by Nancy
- Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris/The Fat and the Thin/Savage Paris/The Markets of Paris) (1873/1874)
Les Trois Villes
- Lourdes (1894)
- Rome (1896)
- Paris (1898)
Les Quatre Évangiles
- Fécondité (Fruitfulness) (1899)
- Travail (Labor/Work) (1901)
- Vérité (Truth) (1903, published posthumously)
- Justice (unfinished)
Short Stories and Novellas
- Angeline (1899) (short story first published in London Star)
- L’Attaque du moulin (1877) (short story included in Les Soirées de Médan, a collection of stories by six authors)
- Le Capitaine Burle (1882) (short story collection including Le Capitaine Burle, Comment on meurt and La Fête à Coqueville)
- Contes à Ninon (1864) (Stories from Ninon) including Le grand Michu (1870), see commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
- L’Inondation (1880) (novella) The Flood
- Le Jeûne (1870) (Fasting)
- Madame Sourdis (1880 in Russia, 1900 in France)
- Naïs Micoulin (1884) (short story collection including Naïs Micoulin, La Mort d’Olivier Bécaille, Les Coquillages de M. Chabre and Jacques Damour)
- Nantas (1878)
- Nouveaux Contes à Ninon (1874) (New Stories from Ninon)
- Pour une nuit d’amour (1876) (For a Night of Love)
- Les Quatre Journees de Jean Gourdon (1874) (novella included in Nouveaux Contes à Ninon)
Non-fiction (essays & letters)
- L’affaire Dreyfus: lettre à la jeunesse (The Dreyfus Affair) (1887)
- Documents Littéraires, Études et portraits (1881)
- Edouard Manet: étude biographique et critique (1867)
- J’accuse (I Accuse) (1898)
- Le Naturalisme au théâtre (1881)
- La République et la Littérature (1879)
- Le Roman Experimental (1880) The Experimental Novel
- Les Romanciers naturalistes (1881) (essays)
- Mes haines (1866) (art and literary criticism)
- Mon salon (1866) (art and literary criticism)
- Nos auteurs dramatiques (1881) (essays)
- La Vérité en marche (1901) (collection of Zola’s essays on The Dreyfus Affair)
Could you please give me a link on any notes on the short story: ‘The maid of the dauber’. I just finished reading it and would like to look up a few things. This is my first Zola.
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Hello Subham, I don’t know this story, perhaps someone out there in cyberspace can help…
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I don’t know it either. Does it say anywhere what the title was in French?
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nope. tried but could not find the french title. the story is beautiful. the end sort of puzzled me.
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Does it have an ISBN or a Library of Congress number to track it down perhaps through World Cat?
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Is there an online resource as good as this covering Balzac’s writings?
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Yes, there is our sister site La Comedie Humaine which is a resource for readers of Honoré de Balzac. The URL link is in the introduction on the Home page and also in the RH menu, right down at the bottom.
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Thanks for your interest, Ashley. In case you’re having a problem finding the site with the information Lisa gave you, here’s a link: https://balzacbooks.wordpress.com/
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Hi, I just saw a French culinary program that mentions that Zola has written about seafood, but I don’t know in which title. Could you maybe help me?
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Hi Tamara, it was probably Le Ventre de Paris (variously translated as The Belly of Paris/The Fat and the Thin/Savage Paris/The Markets of Paris). It’s set in Les Halles de Paris, the huge fresh food market in the heart of the city that was a mecca for food-lovers until it was (unwisely) demolished in 1971. If you check out my review, you can see paintings of it, including one of a fishmonger. See https://readingzola.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/the-belly-of-paris-by-emile-zola-translated-by-brian-nelson/
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