A scholarly edition of "J'accuse" -- Zola's humanist denunciation of the arrest of Alfred Dreyfus -- as well as letters, articles and documents pertaining to the controversy and to Zola's own subsequent arrest for sedition. In 1894 a Jewish captain in the French army, falsely accused of espionage, was deported to Devil's Island. His trial ignited an enormous popular debate, forever after known as "The Dreyfus Affair", as some French aired their anti-Semitic grievances while others (Emile Zola among them) excoriated their xenophobic countrymen.  (FRN289, $22.00)