A ZOLA DICTIONARY
The Characters Of The Rougon-Macquart Novels Of Emile Zola
By J. G. Patterson
With a Biographical and Critical Introduction,
Synopses of the Plots, Bibliographical Note,
Map,
Genealogy, etc.
Contents
THE ROUGON-MACQUART GENEALOGICAL TREE.
SYNOPSES OF THE PLOTS OF THE ROUGON-MACQUART NOVELS
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | V | W | Z |
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL SCENES
PREFATORY NOTE
In the preparation of my Introduction I have, of course, relied for information on the recognized Biographies of Zola, namely Notes d’un Ami, by Paul Alexis (Paris, Charpentier); Emile Zola, A biographical and Critical Study, by R. H. Sherrard (London, Chatto & Windus, 1893); Emile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An account of his Life and Work, by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London, John Lane, 1904). Reference has also been made to Mr. Arthur Symons’ Studies in Prose and Verse, and to articles in the Fortnightly Review by Mr. Andrew Lang, in the Atlantic Monthly by Mr. Henry James, and in the Contemporary Review by M. Edouard Rod, as well as to articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannica and in the Dictionnaire Universel des Contemporains.
By kind permission of Messrs. Chatto & Windus it has been possible to include the diagram of the Rougon-Macquart Genealogical Tree, which a