Chapter 10

Emile Zola’s Greatest Works.Nana and L’Assommoir.

Emile Zola’s Greatest Works.

Nana and L’Assommoir.

“Nana” and “L’Assommoir” are the greatest as well as the most powerful and wonderful novels ever written. They have created a great sensation everywhere, as the literary event of the century, over five hundred thousand copies of “Nana” and “L’Assommoir” having been sold in Paris alone. Zola is literally true to life in his powerful delineations. His books are immortal because they are true.

LIST OF ÉMILE ZOLA’S GREAT WORKS.

Petersons’ Translations in English for American Readers.

Nana!The Sequel to “L’Assommoir.”Nana!By Emile Zola. With a Picture of “Nana” on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper cover, or One Dollar in Cloth, Black and Gold.

L’Assommoir; or, Nana’s Mother.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana.”With a Picture of “Gervaise,” Nana’s mother, on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper, or One Dollar in Cloth.

Christine, the Model; or Studies of Love.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.”Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Renée.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” etc.With a Portrait of Renée on the cover.Zola’s New Play of “Renée” was dramatized from this book. Paper, 75 cents; Cloth, $1.25.

The Shop Girls of Paris, with their Life and Experiences in a Large Dry Goods Store.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana.” Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth.

The Mysteries of the Court of Louis Napoleon.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.”Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Nana’s Brother.The Son of “Gervaise” and “Lantier” of “L’Assommoir.”By Emile Zola, author of “Nana.” Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

The Girl in Scarlet: or, The Loves of Silvère and Miette.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.”Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth.

The Paris Market Girls; or, La Belle Lisa.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.”Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

A Mad Love; or, The Abbé and His Court.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.”Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

The Joys of Life.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” “L’Assommoir,” etc. With an Illustration on cover. Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth.

Claude’s Confession.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” “L’Assommoir,” “Pot-Bouille,” “The Girl in Scarlet,” etc. Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Pot-Bouille.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” “L’Assommoir,” etc. With an Illustrated Cover. Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Her Two Husbands.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” “L’Assommoir,” “Pot-Bouille,” “The Girl in Scarlet,” etc. Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth.

Hélène.A Tale of Love and Passion.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.” With a Picture of “Hélène” on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth.

The Mysteries of Marseilles.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana,” “L’Assommoir,” “The Girl in Scarlet,” etc. Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Albine; or, The Abbé’s Temptation.By Emile Zola, author of“Nana” and “L’Assommoir.” With a Picture of “Albine” on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper, or $1.25 in Cloth.

Magdalen Ferat.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana.”With a Picture of “Magdalen Ferat” on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.25 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Thérèse Raquin.By Emile Zola, author of “Nana.”With a Portrait of “Emile Zola” on the cover.Price 75 cents in paper cover, or One Dollar in Cloth, Black and Gold.

Nana’s Daughter.A Continuation of and Sequel to Emile Zola’s Great Realistic Novel of “Nana.” Price 75 cents in paper cover, or $1.00 in Cloth, Black and Gold.

☞Petersons’ American Translations of Emile Zola’s works are for sale by all Booksellers and at all News Stands everywhere, or copies of any one book, or more of them, will be sent to any one, to any place, at once, post-paid, on remitting the price of the ones wanted in a letter to the Publishers.

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia, Pa.

A BOOK TO DAZZLE, FASCINATE AND DELIGHT ALL READERS.RONDAHOR,Thirty-three Years in a Star.BY FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.

A BOOK TO DAZZLE, FASCINATE AND DELIGHT ALL READERS.

RONDAH

OR,

Thirty-three Years in a Star.

BY FLORENCE CARPENTER DIEUDONNÉ.

“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” a peculiarly fascinating and absorbing novel by Florence Carpenter Dieudonné, is written in the fruitful vein of fancy and mystery opened by H. Rider Haggard in “She” and “King Solomon’s Mines,” but in many points surpasses those weird and popular romances. It is exceedingly clever and brilliant. The plot is ingenuity itself, and the incidents are strange and inexplicable enough to satisfy the strongest craving for the marvellous. In fact, the entire book is but a progression from one marvel to another, each succeeding episode distancing its predecessors in the element of wonder until the climax is reached in the disclosure of the mysteries and dazzling magnificence of that truly astounding spot, the Sun Island. Gregg Dempster, a visionary hermit, has discovered a little star, an uncooled planet yet in process of formation, and a mysterious method of reaching it. His friend Regan gains possession of his secret and the hermit dies. Regan, Roy Lee, Isabella, Rondah and Father Renaudin, a venerable priest, are in Dempster’s hut during a storm while the hermit’s corpse is yet lying there. Regan watches for the critical moment. It comes. He puts Rondah out of doors and the four remaining personages are whirled away to the star, where they meet with numerous wonderful adventures and experiences. Rondah is subsequently conveyed to the star and participates in many intensely weird and dramatic scenes. To the supernatural phases of the novel the author has added mortal love, hate, jealousy and enthusiasm, employing them with rare art and effect. The star’s luxuriant summer with its wealth of vegetation and its icy winter of twenty years are graphically pictured. The natives are mostly bird people, winged and of vegetable growth, and over them Regan reigns as king. “Rondah” is crisply and vigorously written, and its special charm is the realistic way in which its wonders are depicted, an air of probability being maintained throughout all its marvellous incidents. That everybody will read and vastly relish it goes without saying.

One Volume, Duodecimo. Paper Cover. Price Fifty Cents.

☞“Rondah; or, Thirty-three Years in a Star,” will be found for sale by all Booksellers and at all News Stands everywhere, or copies of it will be sent to any one, to any place, at once, post-paid, on remitting the price to the publishers,

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia, Pa.

A WOMAN’S STORY—FERVID, GLOWING, PASSIONATE AND REPENTANT.WHO CARES?EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MARY CAMPBELL.FACTS, NOT FANCIES.BY MRS. HARRIET N. K. GOFF.WITH AN INTRODUCTIONBY REV. DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER.

A WOMAN’S STORY—FERVID, GLOWING, PASSIONATE AND REPENTANT.

WHO CARES?

EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF MARY CAMPBELL.

FACTS, NOT FANCIES.

BY MRS. HARRIET N. K. GOFF.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY REV. DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER.

“Who Cares?” is a book which every one should read, especially every one who desires to promote social purity. It is the autobiography of a Magdalen, the casting out of whose devils was clearly followed by the inbreathing of the Divine Spirit which gives the healed the power to become the healer. Mary Campbell, like the Mary Magdalen of Scripture, became possessed of seven times the blessed spirit of ministration which most people have after the seven devils were cast out of her. She was a child of inharmonious parentage—of a cultured though vicious and cruel father, and an ignorant and passionate mother. No love in her home, but gross cruelty and hardship abounded, rendered yet more unendurable by outcroppings of refinement inherited from remote ancestry. Begotten, as she and her brother and sisters were, of depraved desires only, and thus tainted in the substratum of their natures, reared without love, though hungering for it, and in poverty that was utter destitution of all that either soul, body, or heart could crave, the sound sense and strength of mind and native ability evinced in Mary’s narrative prove clearly that to her fell a large portion of the heritage of her paternal grandmother, and that her reformation was deep and real. The story was written while Death glared into the very face of the poor girl whose secret wore her life out; indeed, it was finished almost with her expiring breath. Hers was a soul at one with its Maker, and terribly alive to the miseries of those in the horrible pit whence she was rescued. The “great cry of her soul” commends the book to every lover of humanity, every father, mother, mistress, young man and young woman, the influential and the friendless, the Christian and the Christless, the law-maker and the law-breaker, and each will find a lesson there, which will “make for good.” The reader is held spellbound from the first page to the last, and cannot close the volume without knowing himself possessed of new thoughts, clearer views, higher aims, better understanding and broader charity to aid in answering the question: “Who Cares?” Poor Mary, of blessed memory now! “Poor Kate” and “Poor little Maggie!” What else could have been expected? The Woman’s Christian Temperance Unions should have the book, the White Cross army and the Black Cross army, male and female.

One Volume, Duodecimo. Paper Cover. Price Fifty Cents.

“Who Cares?” will be found for sale by all Booksellers and at all News Stands everywhere, or copies of it will be sent to any one, to any place, at once, post-paid, on remitting Fifty Cents in a letter to the publishers,

T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia, Pa.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTESSilently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling.Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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