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In 1885 Zola published one of his finest works, GERMINAL. It is the first major literary work based on a strike, drawn from his research notes on labour conditions in the coalmines. Right-wing political groups attacked the book as a call to revolution. NANA (1880), explores the world of sexual exploitation. Zola's tetralogy, LES QUATRE EVANGILES, which began with FÉCONDITÉ (1899), was left unfinished.
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In 1885 Zola published one of his finest works, Germinal. It was the first major work on a strike, based on his research notes on labor conditions in the coal mines. The book was attacked by right-wing political groups as a call to revolution. It was the first novel in which the possibility of a social revolution launched by the proletariat against the middle classes was seriously mooted. In his descriptions of the dangerous daily labor in the pits and of the rioting of the exasperated strikers, Zola achieved effects of agony and terror of a kind never before realized in literature.
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Some of these photographs have been published by the Norwood Society in their book Emile Zola - Photographer in Norwood 1898/9. These magnificent Victorian views provide an intriguing glimpse of the huge glass structure that dominated the Sydenham skyline from its opening in 1854 through to 1936 when the building was destroyed by fire. A photograph of the main entrance to the Crystal palace clearly shows the large prefabricated cast-iron glazed sections from which the main building was constructed. It was the simple modular design of these sections by Joseph Paxton that enabled the Palace to be reconstructed so easily at Sydenham, following the success of the Great Exhibition which was housed in the original building in Hyde Park in 1851.
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Zola visited the locations in which the action of his books took place, observed closely, and took copious notes. In his novels he introduced characters inspired by his research, studied their hereditary backgrounds (often familiar to readers of earlier novels in the cycle), and observed how their lives played out in their world. Although Zola’s science sometimes seems amateur, it lent coherence to the enormous cycle of novels. Some think it fortunate that Zola’s epic imagination often eclipses his scientific aspirations.
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During his formative years Zola wrote several short stories and essays, 4 plays and 3 novels. Among his early books was CONTES Á NINON, which was published in 1864. When his sordid autobiographical novel LA CONFESSION DE CLAUDE (1865) was published and attracted the attention of the police, Zola was fired from Hachette.
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During his early years, Zola wrote several short stories and essays, four plays and three novels. Among his early books was Contes à Ninon, published in 1864. With the publication of his sordid autobiographical novel La Confession de Claude (1865) attracting police attention, Hachette fired him.
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