The Fortune of the Rougons

The Fortune of the Rougons

Émile Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons

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INTRODUCTION

“The Fortune of the Rougons” is the initial volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Though it was by no means M. Zola’s first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first great bid for genuine literary fame, and the foundation of what must necessarily be regarded as his life-work. The idea of writing the “natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire,” ...

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