Emile Zola: The Complete 'Rougon-Macquart' Cycle (20 Volumes) (Golden Deer Classics)

ISBN-10
2377870120
ISBN-13
9782377870127
Series
Émile Zola
Language
English
Published
2017
Author
Emile Zola

Description

Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the lives of the members of the two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852-1870) and is one of the most prominent works of the French naturalism literary movement. CONTENTS: 01 - THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS 02 - THE KILL 03 - THE FAT AND THE THIN 04 - THE CONQUEST OF PLASSANS 05 - ABBE MOURET'S TRANSGRESSION 06 - HIS EXCELLENCY EUGENE ROUGON 07 - THE DRAM SHOP 08 - A LOVE EPISODE 09 - NANA 10 - PIPING HOT 11 - THE LADIES' PARADISE 12 - THE JOY OF LIFE 13 - GERMINAL 14 - HIS MASTERPIECE 15 - THE EARTH 16 - THE DREAM 17 - THE HUMAN BEAST 18 - MONEY 19 - THE DOWNFALL 20 - DOCTOR PASCAL

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