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Mitterand, Henri. Zola, III, L'honneur (1893-1902).(Book Review)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20030922
Author:Walker, Philip

Paris: Fayard, 2002. Pp. 864. ISBN 2-213-61331-1

This third and final volume of Henri Mitterand's magistral, 3,000-page biography of Emile Zola, covers primarily the last nine years of Zola's life: the short, but eventful period following the completion of Lea Rougon-Macquart, in 1893, and ending with what was very possibly his murder, in 1902. The volume is divided into five main parts, plus (by my count) 161 illustrations, an epilogue, chronological table, bibliography, and three indexes. It devotes, very logically, most of Parts III and IV and the first two chapters of Part ...

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