Index of works (with links to Commentaries & Summaries)

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)
  • Commentary by Rachel Cordasco
  • Plot summary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
  • Commentary by Karen (Booker Talk)
• 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)
  • Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers) 
• Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal) (1893)
  • Excerpt by Jonathan
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
• 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)
  • Commentary by Kat
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
  • Excerpt by Jonathan
  • Plot summary by Jonathan
• La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons) (1871)
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
  • Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
  • Plot summary by Jonathan
• 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)
  • Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
  • Commentary by Arnold Bennett (Silver Threads)
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
• 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)
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
  • Plot Summary by Jonathan
  • Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
• 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)
  • Commentary by Nancy (Silver Threads)
  • Commentary by Lisa Hill (ANZ LitLovers)
  • Excerpt by Jonathan
  • Excerpt #2 by Jonathan
  • Excerpt from Balzac’s Omelette by Anka Muhlstein

Les Trois Villes

• Lourdes  (1894)
  • Commentary by Jonathan
• Rome (1896)
  • Commentary (Part One) by Jonathan
  • Commentary (Part Two) by Jonathan
• Paris (1898)
  • Commentary by Jonathan

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)