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LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
The Attackon the Mill
AND OTHERSKETCHESOF WAR
BY
Émile Zola
WITH AN ESSAY ON THE
SHORT STORIES OF M. ZOLA
BY EDMUND GOSSE
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
BEDFORD STREET W.C.
MDCCCXCII
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| PAGE | |
| ESSAY BY MR. GOSSE | 1 |
| THE ATTACK ON THE MILL | 47 |
| THREE WARS | 131 |
| PUBLISHER’S CATALOG | |
| TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE |
It is by his huge novels, and principally bythose of the Rougon-Macquart series, thatM. Zola is known to the public and to thecritics. Nevertheless, he has found timeduring the thirty years of his busy literarycareer to publish about as many small stories,now comprised in four separate volumes. Itis natural that his novels should present sovery much wider and more attractive asubject for analysis that, so far as I candiscover, even in France no critic hashitherto taken the shorter productions separately,and discussed M. Zola as a m