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Author:
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902, author.
Title:
La débâcle / Emile Zola ; translated by Elinor Dorday ; with an introduction and notes by Robert Lethbridge.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xxxix, 536 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Subject:
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Dorday, Elinor, translator.
Lethbridge, Robert, writer of introduction.
Other Titles:
Débâcle. English
Notes:
First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2000. Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxiii)
Summary:
"La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions Zola ever wrote. Zola skillfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France."--Jacket.
Series:
Oxford world's classics
ISBN:
0198801890 (paperback)
9780198801894 (paperback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)992725099
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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