The Fortune of the Rougons: Les Rougon-Macquart: La Fortune des Rougon

The Fortune of the Rougons, 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 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 in a large provincial town in southern France. The title refers not only to the "fortune" chased by protagonists Pierre and Felicit? Rougon, but also to the fortunes of the various disparate family members Zola introduces, whose lives are of central importance to later books in the series.

Author: Emile Zola

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Nov 21, 2017

Number of Pages: 208 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1979961182

ISBN-13: 9781979961189