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The Fortune of the Rougons (Paperback)
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The Fortune of the Rougons (Paperback)
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The Fortune of the Rougons (1871) is a novel by French author Emile
Zola. The first of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les
Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class,
and history that traces the disparate paths of several French
citizens raised by the same mother. Spanning the entirety of the
French Second Empire, Zola provides a sweeping portrait of change
that refuses to shy away from controversy and truth as it gets to
the heart of heredity and human nature. Adelaide Fouque is a woman
of Plassans, a town in southern France. Alongside her son Pierre
Rougon, whose deceased father was her husband, Adelaide raises the
Macquart siblings, her children from a brief, passionate affair.
Despite their shared upbringing, the three children take vastly
diverging paths in life. Pierre, desperate to prove his legitimacy,
becomes an ambitious middle-class man whose deepest desire is to
win favor with the aristocracy and to climb even further from his
humble roots. Meanwhile, his half siblings struggle to make a
living for themselves and their working-class families. As Pierre's
ambitions lead him to not only disinherit the Macquarts, but to
position himself as a supporter of Napoleon III in his attempt to
overthrow the French government. At the same time, Silvere Mouret,
Adelaide's grandson, and his lover Miette Chantegreil find
themselves on the side of the republicans who attempt to resist
Napoleon's coup. The Fortune of the Rougons is a story of family
and fate, a thrilling and detailed novel that sets up a world rich
enough for its author to explore in nineteen subsequent volumes.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Emile Zola's The Fortune of the Rougons
is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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