Contes à Ninon by Émile Zola
"Contes à Ninon" by Émile Zola is a collection of tales published in 1864. This debut work presents eight stories that begin with romantic fairy tales but gradually shift toward social realism. The tales follow various quests—from naive princes meeting water spirits to soldiers haunted by battlefield violence, from mistreated children receiving miraculous gifts to a giant and dwarf seeking happiness. Through these evolving narratives, Zola moves from idealized romance to pointed
commentary on war, inequality, and French imperial politics, marking his transition from romantic poet to social observer. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | Contes à Ninon |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contes_%C3%A0_Ninon |
| Contents | A Ninon -- Simplice -- Le carnet de danse -- Celle qui m'aime -- La fée amoureuse -- Le sang -- Les voleurs et l'âne -- Soeur-des-pauvres -- Aventures du grand Sidoine et du petit Médéric. |
| Credits | Produced by Sergio Cangiano, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Short stories, French |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 7462 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 21, 2015 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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