Mark Leder
The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle
The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Ladies' Paradise, Book Eleven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
This is the sequel to "Piping Hot!", so the eleventh volume in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle. This is the story of Octave Mouret, …
The Cloven Foot
John Traverton goes to visit his uncle Jasper. Jasper wishes John to marry his adopted daughter, Laura. If he does so within one calendar y…
The Fifth Queen Crowned
This is the final book of Ford's The Fifth Queen trilogy, a series of historical novels presenting a fictionalized version of the life of Ka…
Jack Sheppard: A Romance
The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens'…
L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the…
Impressions of Theophrastus Such (Version 2)
The ruminations and reflections of a minor scholar. - Summary by Mark Leder
The Nature of a Crime
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
The Wrong Twin
With their father Dave, a classic rolling stone, out on the road, twins Merle and Wilbur lead a haphazard life. But at least they have each…
Piping Hot (Pot Bouille), Book Ten of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Covering a two-year period, Zola recounts the lives, intrigues, quarrel and loves of a group of five families all living in what was at the …
Germinal, Book Thirteen in the Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2 in English)
Etienne Lantier (our line to the Rougon-Macquart Cycle) goes to work as a coal miner in the Northern France town of Montou. Conditions are …