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When Pauline Quenu is taken to the seaside to live with her relatives, her love of life contrasts with the pessimism which infects the family. This is the twelfth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, remarkable for it's depictions of intense emotions and physical and mental suffering.

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This excellent edition offers a finely judged and authoritative translation of one of Zola's more peculiar novels. * Richard Niland, Translation and Literature *

The Bright Side of Life

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    A Paperback / softback by Émile Zola, Andrew Rothwell

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 26 July 2018
      ISBN-13 9780198753612
      978-0198753612
      ISBN-10 0198753616
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      Emile Zola Books by Emile Zola

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      When Pauline Quenu is taken to the seaside to live with her relatives, her love of life contrasts with the pessimism which infects the family. This is the twelfth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, remarkable for it's depictions of intense emotions and physical and mental suffering.

      Trade Review
      This excellent edition offers a finely judged and authoritative translation of one of Zola's more peculiar novels. * Richard Niland, Translation and Literature *

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