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 unfold. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
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
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Most Recently Updated Apr 20, 2023
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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