This is a collected edition of the writings of Émile Zola, gathering his fiction and other work in one place. At its heart stands the Rougon-Macquart cycle, twenty novels that follow a single family through the Second Empire and portray Parisian streets, mines, farms, markets and the world of finance. Alongside these are his early stories, his critical essays on literature and art, and his journalism, including writing on the Dreyfus affair. Together they show the range of a writer who combined detailed observation with strong social conscience.