Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Author: first_name: Émile
last_name: Zola
Language: English
Year: 1875

This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans".  Serge Mouret, the son of Francois and Marthe, is now a priest, in the little backwater of Artauds.  After he suffers a breakdown, with subsequent amnesia, however, he enters into a romance with the childlike Albine, which leads to catastrophe. - Summary by Mark Leder