Accompanying person

Author: émile Zola
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Publish Date: 1998-01-01
Features: This book collects the representative short stories and novellas of émile Zola. These works expose the political darkness, religious hypocrisy, and bourgeois vileness during the Second French Empire and the Third Republic, as well as express sympathy for the suffering of the poor and praise the greatness of laborers. They also contrast the decline of the ruling class's sense of honor with the heroism of ordinary people, depict the lives of petty bourgeoisie and the activities of artists, and explore issues of marriage, death, and desire.