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The Dream

Author
Emile Zola
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
218 pages
ISBN
9781909904903
Published
15 November 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Emile Zola
  • Zola
  • naturalism
  • romance
  • romantic
  • tale
  • social order
  • realism
  • France
  • french

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Description

Angelique is adopted by a couple of embroiderers, the Huberts. Enthralled by the tales of the saints and martyrs, Angelique is dreaming about a handsome prince and falls in love with Felicien d'Hautecoeur, the last in an old family of knights, heroes, and nobles in the service of Christ and of France. His father, the present Monseigneur, objects to their marrying.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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