Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Author: first_name: Émile
last_name: Zola
Language: English
Year: 1886

The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle.  A monument of French naturalism.  The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during the Second Empire, the family that grew out of the liaisons between Adelaide Fouque and her husband Rougons, and the smuggler Macquart. - Summary by Mark Leder