Les Rougon-Macquart
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Les Rougon-Macquart is a literary cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire, it follows the lives of the members o
First page of La Fortune des Rougon, the first book of the series
Zola, with the book of the Rougon-Macquart under his arm, salutes the statue of Balzac.
Letter by Zola to his publisher
The 1878 tree, published in a note included in Une Page d'amour
Germinal (novel)
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel
Les Rougon-Macquart
…Eugène Rougon (1876) L'Assommoir (1877) Une page d'amour (1878) Nana (1880) Pot-Bouille (1882) Au Bonheur des Dames (1883) La joie de vivre (1884) Germinal (1885) L'Œuvre (1886) La Terre (1887) Le Rêve (1888) La Bête humaine (1890) L'Argent (1891) La Débâcle (1892) Le Docteur Pascal (1893) A recommended…
First edition, 1885
The title page of the 1885 French edition