The Flood by Emile Zola, Fiction, Classics, Literary

Saint-Jory -- our home -- is situated at the bottom of a slope at about five hundred yards from the Garonne. Screens of tall poplars that divide the meadows, hiding the river completely. We could see nothing. And still the cry rang out: "The Garonne! The Garonne!" Suddenly, on the wide road before us, appeared two men and three women, one of them holding a child in her arms. It was they who were crying out, distracted, running with long strides. They turned at times, looking behind with terrified faces, as if a band of wolves was pursuing them. "What's the matter with them?" demanded Cyprien. It was the river -- it was The Flood.

Author: Emile Zola
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 06/01/2011
Pages: 38
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d
ISBN: 9781463801717

About the Author
Zola, Emile: - "Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902."