The Fortune of the Rougons

Audiobook Flow is carrying The Fortune of the Rougons, read by Leighton Pugh. Written by Émile Zola.

Émile Zola’s The Fortune of the Rougons (1871), the opening title in the series of twenty novels dealing with the Rougon-Macquart dynasty, delves into the origins of the family against the backdrop of the 1851 coup d’état. Major themes across the series have their catalyst here: ambition, greed and psychological flaws are shown to pass from one generation to the next as a result of heredity and social environment. Zola contrasts the cynical opportunism of the Rougons with the romantic idealism of h

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