The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola
"The Fortune of the Rougons" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1871. It opens the twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, tracing two branches of a family descended from the troubled Adelaide Fouque. Against the backdrop of Napoleon III's 1851 coup d'état in provincial France, the ambitious Rougons scheme for wealth and status while their working-class Macquart relatives struggle to survive. A young couple's idealistic romance collides with political upheaval as family destinies
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
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| Editor | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922 |
| Uniform Title | La Fortune des Rougon. English |
| Title | The Fortune of the Rougons |
| Note | Translation of La fortune des Rougon. |
| Note | The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series of novels. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortune_des_Rougon |
| Credits | Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | France -- History -- 1848-1870 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 5135 |
| Release Date | Apr 22, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 20, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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