Money. Dream. The conquest of the plassane. Zola E.

Emil Zola is one of the pillars of world realistic literature, the leader and theoretician of the literary movement of naturalism, a passionate researcher of everyday life, passionate human rights activist and publicist who influenced the entire realistic direction of literature of the 20th century and, above all, to the school of “New Journalism”: Trumen Kapota , Volume of Wolf, Norman Meyler. Its most famous work is the epoch-making twenty-volume cycle of Rugon-Makkara, which opens the endless panorama of human vices and virtues in the scenery of the second empire. This is an encyclopedia of the life of Paris and the French province on the material of several generations of one family that gave birth to the strangest fruits - dizzying in its detail and scale of the epic, where there is everything: greed and disinterestedness, love of neighbor and animal passion, exalted aspirations and everyday routine, pride , cruelty, cynicism and violence, take -off and the fall of the strong and weak of this world.

This illustrated edition included the fourth, fifth and sixth novel of the cycle, and they sound fresh and relevant even after a century and a half. Before the eyes of the amazed public in the boiling Paris, the financial pyramid, the brainchild of a charming fan of profit is being built and collapsed; Poor orphan takes life lessons from saints; And in the provincial town of Plassan, in the homeland of Rugons and Maccarov, local society falls at the feet of a visiting priest, careerist and Pharisee. The novels "Dream" and "Plassane conquering" are published in new translations. Some illustrations by Nathan Altman to the novel "Money" are published for the first time.