A selection of ÉMILE zoLA's letters translated by JOANNA RICHARDSON Read by Michael Deacon
Zola's literary ferocity was for once tamed by the balm ofL'Estaque in the South of France, where, in the summer of 1877, he was writing Le bien public. 'This will be a gentler work,' he claimed; am deliberately writing for schoolgirls.'
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