Flood
Author: first_name: Émile
last_name: Zola
Language: English
Year: 1902

A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood.  The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature. (Summary by Karen Merline)