Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853–1922) was an English journalist and author.

Life

He was a son of the English publisher

Henry Vizetelly Henry Richard Vizetelly (30 July 18201 January 1894) was a British publisher and writer. He started the publications ''Pictorial Times'' and ''Illustrated Times'', wrote several books while working in Paris and Berlin as correspondent for the ''I ...

, by his first marriage to Ellen Elizabeth Pollard. He was known as a war correspondent. Ernest was present with his father at the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War and wrote a memoir of his experiences, ''My Days of Adventure: The Fall of France, 1870-71'', which also contains an autobiographical introduction. He edited some translations of

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's works that had previously been published by his father between 1884 and 1889, as well as producing his own translations. When Zola fled France for England during

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in 1898, Vizetelly supported and advised Zola.

Works by Zola edited or translated by E.A. Vizetelly

Many of Ernest Vizetelly's translations of Zola were based on work done by anonymous translators who, each to some degree,

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the texts. Following the publication of the translation of ''

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'', Vizetelly & Co. was prosecuted for obscenity by the National Vigilence Association, causing him to re-edit, rewrite, and further bowdlerize the English versions of the Rougon-Macquart series, and as such they are almost universally considered to be of inferior quality. * '' The Downfall'', translated by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1893) * '' Doctor Pascal'', translated by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894) * ''

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'', translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894) * ''The Ladies' Paradise'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1895) * '' A Love Episode'', translated with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1895) * '' The Fat and the Thin'', translated with an introduction by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896) * '' The Dram Shop'', edited with an introduction by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1897) * ''His Excellency'', edited with a preface by Ernest A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1897) * '' The Fortune of the Rougons'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1898) * '' Abbé Mouret's Transgression'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1900) * '' The Conquest of Plassans'', edited with an introduction by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1900) * '' Germinal'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1901) * ''

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'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1901) * '' His Masterpiece'', edited with a preface by E. A. Vizetelly (London: Chatto & Windus, 1902) * The "Trois Villes" series: I, "Lourdes," II, "Rome," and III, "Paris," as translated by Ernest A. Vizetelly, (The Three City, 1899) is published in London by Chatto and Windus, in New York by the Macmillan Co. * "Fruitfulness" ("Fécondité"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto; New York, Doubleday. * "Work" ("Travail"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto. * "Truth" ("Vérité"), translated by E. A. Vizetelly. London, Chatto; New York, John Lane.

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