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The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. In it we learn how the two branches of the family came about, and the origins of the hereditary weaknesses passed down the generations. Murder, treachery, and greed are the keynotes, and... Read Full Overview

'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold and blood.'Set in the fictitious Provenal town of Plassans, The Fortune of the Rougons tells the story of Silvre and Miette, two idealistic... Read Full Overview

La Fortune des Rougon est un roman d'?mile Zola publi? en 1871, premier volume de la s?rie Les Rougon-Macquart. Le cadre est une petite ville appel?e Plassans, qui correspond ? Aix-en-Provence, o? Zola a pass? son enfance et une partie de sa jeunesse, et ? Lorgues, dans le Var,... Read Full Overview

La Fortune des Rougon (+Biographie et Bibliographie) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish): La Fortune des Rougon est un roman

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in mile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom... Read Full Overview

First published in 1871, The Fortune of the Rougons (La Fortune des Rougon) is the powerful opening novel of mile Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart series. This ambitious 20-novel cycle explores the lives of a sprawling family during France's Second Empire,... Read Full Overview

La Fortune des Rougon est un roman d'Emile Zola publie en 1871, premier volume de la serie Les Rougon-Macquart. Le cadre est une petite ville appelee Plassans, qui correspond a Aix-en-Provence, ou Zola a passe son enfance et une partie de sa jeunesse, et a Lorgues, dans le Var,... Read Full Overview

The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in ?mile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom... Read Full Overview

La fortune des Rougon ou les Origines est le premier roman du cycle Les Rougon-Macquart d'Emile Zola. Version originale intgrale. Format 8,5 x 11 pouces (21,59 x 27,94 cm), trois colonnes, police 10 points .

The novel is partly an origin story, with a huge cast of characters swarming around - many of whom become the central figures of later novels in the series - and partly an account of the December 1851 coup d' tat that created the French Second Empire under Napoleon III as experienced... Read Full Overview

The Fortune of the Rougons (1871) is a novel by French author mile 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... Read Full Overview

Quiero explicar c mo una familia, un peque o grupo de seres, se comporta en una sociedad, desarroll ndose para engendrar diez, veinte individuos que parecen, en un primer vistazo, profundamente dis miles, pero que el an lisis muestra ntimamente ligados unos con otros. La herencia... Read Full Overview

The first of a series of more than twenty novels, The Fortune of the Rougons presents the passions and conflicts of two families -- one wealthy and aiming at the aristocracy, the other working-class and in desperate poverty -- in a French village in the years... Read Full Overview

D'apr s Martin Kanes, La Fortune des Rougon serait inspir e du roman Pierrette d'Honor de Balzac, dont le sujet est la lutte provinciale entre deux branches d'une famille: les Rogron-Auffray3. Zola devient un ma tre du naturalisme avec la r daction des Rougon-Macquart. Pour... Read Full Overview

?mile ?douard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 -1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization... Read Full Overview

"La Fortune des Rougon" de Emile Zola. Romancier fran ais (1840-1902).

Dans la ville proven ale de Plassans, au lendemain du coup d'Etat d'o va na tre le Second Empire, deux adolescents, Miette et Silv re, se m lent aux insurg s. Leur histoire d'amour comme le soul vement des r publicains traversent le roman, mais au-del d'eux, c'est aussi la... Read Full Overview