Complete Works of Emile Zola

56 works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer (1850-1894)

This ebook presents a collection of 56 works of Robert Louis Stevenson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.

Table of Contents:
- A Child's Garden of Verses
- A Christmas Sermon
- A Footnote to History
- A Lowden Sabbath Morn
- Across the Plains
- An Inland Voyage
- Ballads
- Catriona
- David Balfour
- Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
- Essays in the Art of Writing
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Essays of Travel
- Fables
- Familiar Studies of Men and Books
- Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
- In the South Seas
- Island Nights' Entertainments
- Kidnapped
- Lay Morals
- Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume I
- Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume II
- Master of Ballantrae
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
- Memories and Portraits
- Moral Emblems
- New Arabian Nights
- New Poems
- Prayers Written At Vailima
- Prince Otto
- Records of a Family of Engineers
- Songs of Travel
- St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
- Tales and Fantasies
- The Black Arrow
- The Dynamiter - More New Arabian Nights
- The Ebb-Tide
- The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
- The Plays of R. L. Stevenson and W. E. Henley
- The Pocket -  Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson
- The Sea Fogs
- The Silverado Squatters
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The Waif Woman
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume I
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume II
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume III
- The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume IV
- The Wrecker
- The Wrong Box
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
- Treasure Island
- Underwoods
- Vailima Letters
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
- Weir of Hermiston

THOMAS HARDY
COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS
(Authoritative and Unabridged KOBO eBook Edition)

Every Single Major Work by THOMAS HARDY, including TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, RETURN OF THE NATIVE, JUDE THE OBSCURE, POEMS and More
(300+ Works)!

EXCERPT

"Their heads of luxuriant hair reflected in the sunshine every tone of gold, and black, and brown. Some had beautiful eyes, others a beautiful nose, others a beautiful mouth and figure: few, if any, had all. A difficulty of arranging their lips in this crude exposure to public scrutiny, an inability to balance their heads, and to dissociate self-consciousness from their features, was apparent in them, and showed that they were genuine country girls, unaccustomed to many eyes.

And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will. They were all cheerful, and many of them merry.

They came round by The Pure Drop Inn, and were turning out of the high road to pass through a wicket-gate into the meadows, when one of the women said—

"The Load-a-Lord! Why, Tess Durbeyfield, if there isn't thy father riding hwome in a carriage!"

A young member of the band turned her head at the exclamation. She was a fine and handsome girl—not handsomer than some others, possibly—but her mobile peony mouth and large innocent eyes added eloquence to colour and shape. She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment. As she looked round Durbeyfield was seen moving along the road in a chaise belonging to The Pure Drop, driven by a frizzle-headed brawny damsel with her gown-sleeves rolled above her elbows. This was the cheerful servant of that establishment, who, in her part of factotum, turned groom and ostler at times. Durbeyfield, leaning back, and with his eyes closed luxuriously, was waving his hand above his head, and singing in a slow recitative ..."

TABLE of CONTENTS

• DESPERATE REMEDIES
• UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE
• A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
• FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
• THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA
• RETURN OF THE NATIVE
• THE TRUMPET-MAJOR
• TWO ON A TOWER
• THE ROMANTIC ADVENTURES OF A MILKMAID
• THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE
• THE WOODLANDERS
• TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES
• JUDE THE OBSCURE
• A LAODICEAN: A STORY OF TO-DAY
• THE WELL-BELOVED
• WESSEX TALES
• A GROUP OF NOBLE DAMES
• A FEW CRUSTED CHARACTERS
• THE FIDDLER OF THE REELS
• LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES
• A CHANGED MAN
• WESSEX POEMS AND OTHER VERSES
• POEMS OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT
• THE DYNASTS
• PART FIRST
• TIME'S LAUGHINGSTOCKS AND OTHER VERSES
• SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE WITH MISCELLANEOUS PIECES
• MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
• LATE LYRICS AND EARLIER: WITH MANY OTHER VERSES

ABOUT THOMAS HARDY

Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, he became and continues to be widely regarded for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional county of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.

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The Fortune of the Rougons

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d'état that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced in a large provincial town in southern France.
The novel was translated by Brian Nelson in 2012 under the Oxford Worlds Classics imprint.

Romance, Black Widow, Second Empire, Les Rougon-Macquart, Prostitution

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, the object of which was to tell "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire", the subtitle of the series.

Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class cocotte during the last three years of the French Second Empire. Nana first appears in the end of L'Assommoir (1877), another of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, in which she is portrayed as the daughter of an abusive drunk; in the end, she is living in the streets and just beginning a life of prostitution.

The new novel opens with a night at the Théâtre des Variétés. The Exposition Universelle (1867) has just opened its doors. Nana is 15 years old (the number 18 mentioned in the book is not more than a fig leaf). Zola had taken care to make this clear to his readers by publishing an elaborate family tree of the Rougon-Macquarts in the newspaper Le Bien Public in 1878 when he started writing Nana. Zola describes in detail the performance of La blonde Vénus, a fictional operetta modeled after Offenbach's La belle Hélène, in which Nana is cast as the lead. She has never been seen on a stage, but tout Paris is talking about her. When asked to say something about her talents, Bordenave, the manager of the theatre (he calls it the brothel), explains that a star doesn't have to know how to sing or act: Nana has something else, dammit, and something that takes the place of everything else. I scented it out, and it smells damnably strong in her, or else I lost my sense of smell. Just as the crowd is about to dismiss her performance as terrible, young Georges Hugon shouts: "Très chic!" From then on, she owns the audience, and, when she appears only thinly veiled in the third act, Zola writes: Suddenly, in the good-natured child the woman stood revealed, a disturbing woman with all the impulsive madness of her sex, opening the gates of the unknown world of desire. Nana was still smiling, but with the deadly smile of a man-eater.

The novel then goes on to show how Nana destroys every man who pursues her: Philippe Hugon, Georges' brother, imprisoned after stealing from the army, his employer, for Nana; Steiner, a wealthy banker who is ruined after hemorrhaging cash for Nana's decadence; Georges Hugon, who was so captivated with her from the beginning that, when he realized he could not have her, stabs himself with scissors in anguish; Vandeuvres, a wealthy owner of horses who burns himself in his barn after Nana ruins him financially; Fauchery, a journalist and publisher who falls for Nana early on, writes a scathing article about her later, and falls for her again and is ruined financially; and Count Muffat, whose faithfulness to Nana brings him back for humiliation after humiliation until he finds her in bed with his elderly father-in-law. Becker explains: "What emerges from [Nana] is the completeness of Nana's destructive force, brought to a culmination in the thirteenth chapter by a kind of roll call of the victims of her voracity" (118).

When Nana's work is done, Zola has her die a horrible death from smallpox: What lay on the pillow was a charnel house, a heap of pus and blood, a shovelful of putrid flesh. The pustules had invaded the whole face, so that one pock touched the next. While outside her window the crowd is madly chanting To Berlin! To Berlin! (the time is July 1870, after the Ems Dispatch), Venus is decomposing, her moral corruption is now physical. And this is, Zola implies, what is about to happen to the Second Empire