Zola

Okay, not everything in this book meets the standards of realism as practiced by Balzac and Zola.

Germinal by Émile Zola My favorite reportorial 19th-century novel.

Movies about literary lions and lionesses—The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Out of Africa (1985)—took home the gold statue.

Nor does Mr. Henry James, who in the case of the last-named novel comes to his help against Zola, much mend matters.

While he runs Zola close as a realist, his thoughts and language are as pure as those of Miss Yonge herself.'

A truer and completer picture of war than either Tolstoy or Zola.

Zola seemed to her so magnificent that she was almost frightened at her own enthusiasm and dared not put her feeling into words.

He belongs not only to the "feel" school of novelists, with Zola, but to the "thought" school, with Turgenev.