The Flood by Émile Zola

The Flood

Émile Zola

52 minutes first pub 1880 (editions) user-added

fiction classics dark reflective slow-paced
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 A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature.

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