Money: A Novel

Émile ZolaProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

4.0

Word count: 649K words
Chapters: 65

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Raha: Romaani by Émile ZolaAuthor: Zola, Émile, 1840-1902,Language: Finnish, Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Release Date: Jan 25, 2015

Editor's review

This is a Finnish translation of Money, a novel by the French master of Naturalism Émile Zola, and a public-domain eBook from Project Gutenberg. In Money, Zola turns his gaze to financial speculation and capital operations, using the rises and falls of the stock exchange to portray human desire, greed, and collapse; it is one of the works in his Les Rougon-Macquart series with a particularly broad social vision. The Finnish translation preserves the original's weighty, detailed realist style and is suitable for readers who want to read Zola in a non-English language, as well as for scholars studying the translation and reception of Zola's works. Note that the book's language is Finnish, with no Chinese or English parallel text, so the reading threshold is clear. As a free eBook, it is easy to search and carry, but it lacks translation notes and an introduction, so readers need to supplement the background of nineteenth-century French financial history themselves.

Who it's for

A good fit for

Readers of foreign literature with Finnish reading ability
Scholars studying translations of Zola's works and Naturalism
Bilingual readers interested in classic novels about financial speculation
Collectors of public-domain foreign literature from Gutenberg

Not a good fit for

General readers who only know Chinese and cannot read Finnish
Readers looking for light entertainment
Self-learners needing detailed translation notes and background introductions

Reading tips

First understand the overall outline of Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series before entering this book
While reading, note the contrast between exchange scenes and characters' fates, and keep simple character relationship notes
When encountering financial terms, infer from context first and look them up together after finishing the chapter
If reading Finnish is difficult, read a Chinese or English translation first to become familiar with the plot, then return to the original

About the publisher

Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.

FAQ

Is this book a Chinese edition?

No. The materials show that this is a Finnish translation; the title Raha: Romaani is Finnish for Money: A Novel. Readers without Finnish reading ability need to find a Chinese or English translation elsewhere.

What is the standing of Money among Zola's works?

Money is one of the works in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, dealing with financial speculation and the stock exchange and embodying his Naturalist attention to detailed depiction of the social environment. It is not the most frequently mentioned entry point in the series, but it is important for understanding Zola's social vision.

Does the Gutenberg edition have annotations and an introduction?

Public-domain eBooks from Project Gutenberg usually provide only the main text and generally do not include modern translation notes or introductions. When reading this book, it is advisable to supplement materials on nineteenth-century French financial history and Zola's creative background.

Comments

Find this book

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Émile Zola Author · French · 1840–1902

Émile Zola (1840–1902) was a French novelist, critic and political activist, one of the most prominent French writers of the late nineteenth century and the founder of the theory of naturalism. Through his twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart he constructed a vast social panorama, with representative works including Germinal, L'Assommoir, Au Bonheur des Dames and La Bête humaine. These works often take workers, peasants and ordinary city people as their protagonists, presenting poverty, labour and desire with meticulous observation and an almost documentary style, calm yet powerful. During the Dreyfus Affair Zola published the famous open letter J'Accuse, intervening in public affairs as an intellectual in the cause of justice. The library holds 93 of his works, including several translations.