Zola: A Life
- ISBN-10
- 0333662121
- ISBN-13
- 9780333662120
- Category
- Novelists, French
- Pages
- 888
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Author
- Frederick Brown
Description
This magisterial biography of the strangely private and unknown man is also a superb history of social and literary France in the late 19th century and of the political and intellectual world through which Zola travelled.
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