Les Rougon-Macquart [le ʁu.ɡɔ̃ ma.kaʁ] is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle...
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des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart...
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Le Ventre de Paris [lə vɑ̃tʁ də paʁi] (1873) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. It is set in and around Les...
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Son Excellence Eugène Rougon is the sixth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in 1876 in Le Siècle before being published...
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included in Les Soirées de Médan L'Inondation (The Flood) novella (1880) Les Rougon-Macquart La Fortune des Rougon (1871) La Curée (1871–72) Le Ventre de...
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Nana (novel) (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. A year before he started to write Nana, Zola knew nothing...
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La joie de vivre (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
de vivre (English: The Joy of Living) is the twelfth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas...
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L'Argent (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
L'Argent ("Money") is the eighteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning in November...
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Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal) is the twentieth and final novel of the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, first published in June 1893 by Charpentier...
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La Bête humaine (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
occasions. The seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, it is based on the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense...
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Pot-Bouille (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
the tenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was serialized between January and April 1882 in the periodical Le Gaulois before being...
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L'Assommoir (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel — a study...
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Le rêve (The Dream) is the sixteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It is about an orphan girl who falls in love with a nobleman,...
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and ridiculed in the twenty-two-novel series (1871–1893) about Les Rougon-Macquart family; the thematic thrust is the necessity for social progress...
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Une page d'amour (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Une page d'amour is the eighth novel in the 'Rougon-Macquart' series by Émile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris....
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Au Bonheur des Dames (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Ladies' Delight or The Ladies' Paradise) is the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil...
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Saccard (category Les Rougon-Macquart characters)
created by Émile Zola in his 20-novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart. Saccard (a pseudonym of the character Aristide Rougon) is the central figure in the novels La...
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La Terre (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Émile Zola, published in 1887. It is the fifteenth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. The action takes place in a rural community in the Beauce,...
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La Conquête de Plassans (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon (1871), this novel is again...
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Germinal (novel) (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
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...
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La Curée (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
English: The Kill) is the 2nd novel in Émile Zola's 20-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart serialised from 1871 to 1872 and published in book form in 1872....
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La Débâcle (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Debacle and The Downfall, is the penultimate novel of Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, which first appeared as a serial in La Vie populaire [fr]...
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L'Œuvre (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
'L'Œuvre (The Masterpiece)' is the fourteenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas beginning...
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Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas), Émile Zola (Les Rougon-Macquart), Honoré de Balzac (La Comédie humaine), Guy de Maupassant, Théophile...
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La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (category Books of Les Rougon-Macquart)
Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific...
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Zola was born on 2 April 1840 in Paris. His main literary work was Les Rougon-Macquart, a monumental cycle of twenty novels about Parisian society during...
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Transgression or the Sin of the Father Mouret) by Émile Zola as part of the Les Rougon-Macquart series. Charles Ryder has them growing under his window when he is...
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Bernard's ideas, which functioned as the ideological background to the Les Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Though the affirmation of freedom and rejection...
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Zola was at the height of his glory: the twenty volumes of the Les Rougon-Macquart epic were being distributed in dozens of countries. He was a leader...
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its second edition (1868), in a mixture of pride and defiance, he wrote: "Le groupe d'écrivains naturalistes auquel j'ai l'honneur d'appartenir a assez...
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