The Fortune of the Rougons: Les Rougon-Macquart by Émile Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons: Les Rougon-Macquart

Les Rougon-Macquart #1

Émile Zola with Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Translator)

208 pages first pub 1870 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced
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The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d' tat that created the French Second Emp...

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