The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons

Les Rougon-Macquart #1

Émile Zola

288 pages first pub 1870 (view editions)

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
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The book's stirring opening happens on the eve of the coup d' tat, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night. Zola then spends the next few chapters flashing back in time to pre-...

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