From influential French novelist Emile Zola, author of Germinal and Therese Raquin comes The Flood in a brand new translation, a collection of dark and surreal short stories. 'The Flood' and accompanying stories 'Blood' and 'Three Wars' address ideas of human fragility and the uncontrollable effect the power of nature can have on our lives. 'The Flood' centres around Louis Roubien. Now an old man, the head of a large family, his many years of hard work on the land have transformed him from a peasant farmer into a prosperous and satisfied freeholder, distributing his largesse among his relatives and the local community.

The circus, and other essays: The circus ; The abolition of poets ; Noon-hour adventuring ; Signs and symbols ; The great nickel adventure ; The urban chanticleer ; Daily traveling ; Incongruous New York ; In memorium, John Bunny ; The day after Christmas -- Fugitive pieces: The ashman ; The bear that walks like a man ; Absinthe at the Cheshire Cheese ; Japanese lacquer ; Sappho rediviva ; The poetry of Gerard Hopkins ; Philosophical tendencies in English literature ; Two lectures on English poetry: The ballad, The sonnet ; Gilbert K. Chesterton and his poetry ; Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Aubrey Beardsley ; Swinburne and Francis Thompson ; A note on Thomas Hardy ; Madison Julius Cawein ; Francis Thompson ; John Masefield ; William Vaughn Moody.