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The Fortune of the Rougons
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ISBN10: 1515009572
ISBN13: 9781515009573
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 9 2015
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781515009573
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 9 2015
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Fortune of the Rougons is the initial volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Though it was by no means M. Zola's first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first great bid for genuine literary fame, and the foundation of what must necessarily be regarded as his life-work. The idea of writing the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire, extending to a score of volumes, was doubtless suggested to M. Zola by Balzac's immortal Comedie Humaine. He was twenty-eight years of age when this idea first occurred to him; he was fifty-three when he at last sent the manuscript of his concluding volume, Dr. Pascal, to the press. He had spent five-and-twenty years in working out his scheme, persevering with it doggedly and stubbornly, whatever rebuffs he might encounter, whatever jeers and whatever insults might be directed against him by the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the hypocritical. Truth was on the march and nothing could stay it; even as, at the present hour, its march, if slow, none the less continues athwart another and a different crisis of the illustrious novelist's career.
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