| Émile Zola - Fiction - 2000 - 484 pages
Focuses on the Paris taverns, presenting a tragedy of working-class people in slums. The work was influenced by theories of heredity/experimental science. The behaviour of the ... | |
| Jean Racine, Derek Mahon - Phaedra (Greek mythology) - 1996 - 80 pages
Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-99) has long been considered one of the greatest glories of the French theatre. When the heroine, hounded by supernatural forces, falls tragically ... | |
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