"The Laws of Manu" form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as w...

Perhaps the most autobiographical of Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle of novels, The Masterpiece is a hard, bleak, and raw portrait of unrecognised artistic genius. Claude Lantier, brother to Nana and son of Gervaise, is a struggling pain...

First serialized in French in 1885, Émile Zola's "The Masterpiece" is the story of naturalist painter Claude Lantier and is believed to be a highly fictionalized account of Zola's real-life friendship with the painter P...

"By merging elements of the gothic and tragic...Zola created a work of enduring fascination." Anna Winter, THE GUARDIANFirst published in 1890, Therese Raquin -- Emile Zola's classic tale of forbidden love and murder -- has ...