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Emile Zola’s depiction of Nana’s struggles to rise above her squalid upbringing remains a triumph of novelistic naturalism.

A continuation of Zola’s great twenty-novel sequence, Les Rougon-Macquart, among which are Nana, Germinal, and La Debacle, Rome is a book written by Zola at the end of his career…

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 -…

Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles, is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the death of her parents. There…

The novel’s central character is tienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north…

Features a depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes. This book offers commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. It contains various characters…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…