Rougon-Macquart Novels

Author

Books

  • La fortune des Rougon (The Fortunes of the Rougon Family)
  • La curée (The Contest for the Spoils)
  • Le ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris or The Fat and The Thin)
  • La conquête de Plassans (The Conquest of Plassans)
  • La faute de l'abbé Mouret (Father Mouret's Transgression)
  • Son Excellence Eugéne Rougon
  • L'assomoir (The Dram Shop)
  • Une page d'amour (A Love Story)
  • Nana
  • Pot-bouille (Potboiler)
  • u bonheur des dames (Paradise for Ladies)
  • La joie de vivre (The Joy of Living)
  • Germinal
  • L'oeuvre (The Masterpiece)
  • La terre (Land or The Earth)
  • Le rêve (The Dream)
  • La bête humaine (The Human Beast)
  • L'argent (Money)
  • Le débâcle (The Debacle)
  • Le docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal)

Characters

(More or less by order of birth)

  • Adelaïde Fouque
  • Pierre Rougon
  • Ursula Macquart
  • Antoine Macquart
  • Eugéne Rougon
  • Aristide Saccard (Rougon)
  • [[Pascal Rougon]]
  • Sidonie Rougon
  • Marthe Rougon
  • Jean Macquart
  • Lisa Macquart
  • Gervaise Macquart.
  • François Mouret.
  • Héléne Grandjean (born Mouret)
  • Silvére Mouret.
  • Maxime Saccard (Rougon)
  • Charles Saccard (Rougon)
  • Angélique Hubert (Rougon)
  • Pauline Quenu.
  • François Mouret
  • Octave Mouret
  • Serge Mouret
  • Désirée Mouret
  • Antoine Macquart.
  • Claude Lantier
  • Étienne Lantier
  • Anna Coupeau
  • Jeanne Grandjean
  • Anna Coupeau
  • Jean Macquart
  • Jacques Lantier

Brief Summary

Zola's most prominent work is the twenty-novel cycle (yes, 20!) Les Rougon-Macquart subtitled "Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire", that is, "The social and natural (e.g, anthropological, genetic) history of a family under the Second Empire". This series is not well known in the English-speaking world, though individual novels of the cycle have achieved popularity in translation, notably Germinal (1885) and L'argent (Money) (1891). The most popular in French are Germinal and L'assomoir (The Dram Shop). The novels are summarized on the sites below.

See Also

  • Therese Raquin

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