THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ÉMILE ZOLA. Эмиль Золя
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Название: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ÉMILE ZOLA
Автор: Эмиль Золя
Издательство: Bookwire
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Sometimes when the family is assembled of an evening they talk over the past, and those dear phantoms, Blanche and Philippe, are brought back to life; but the tears that are then shed have no bitterness about them. Peace has come, and recollections savour of the sweetness of a sad and far-off song.
Joseph goes every year to Lambesc to open the shooting season with M. de Girousse. The Count is very old, but he still possesses the lively and original mind of his youth. Besides, time does not hang heavily on his hands, for he has started a large factory.
“Ah!” he often says to the young man, “if you only heard what the nobility of the department say about me! I am a Jacobite, I have made a misalliance by espousing industry. I really regret not having been born a workman, for if I had been, I should not have passed fifty years of my life, dragging out a weary and useless existence in this corner of France.”
But Joseph’s great friend is the worthy Sauvaire. The former master-stevedore, a prey to rheumatism, has nevertheless preserved his triumphant manner. On sunny days he still displays his vanity on the Cannebière, and honestly believes that all the girls he meets suddenly fall in love with him.
Joseph seems to him too serious.
“Look here,” he says to him, leaning on his arm, “one must amuse oneself in this world. In my time we used to laugh from morn till eve. Ah! by Jove! what fun I had! All the pretty women in the city were under my protection. You ask your uncle. Remind him of Clairon. What a lot of money that girl cost me!”
And then in a lower tone, he adds the following phrase which he delights in repeating:
“It was the priests who took her from me.”
THE END
THERESE RAQUIN
Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
PREFACE
This volume, “Therese Raquin,” was Zola’s third book, but it was the one that first gave him notoriety, and made him somebody, as the saying goes.
While still a clerk at Hachette’s at eight pounds a month, engaged in checking and perusing advertisements and press notices, he had already in 1864 published the first series of “Les Contes a Ninon” — a reprint of short stories contributed to various publications; and, in the following year, had brought out “La Confession de Claude.” Both these books were issued by Lacroix, a famous go-ahead publisher and bookseller in those days, whose place of business stood at one of the corners of the Rue Vivienne and the Boulevard СКАЧАТЬ