Here in a single volume are the Works of Emile Zola, the celebrated French novelist and critic. Born in Paris in 1840, Zola worked in an excise office and a publishing house and as a journalist before rising to fame as a writer. His pieces, at once sensual and humorous, brought him notoriety as well as fame and wealth and established him as a champion of the working class. Zola died of carbon monoxide poisoning because of a faulty flue in his bedroom in 1902.