The Conquest of Plassans
By: Émile Zola ; translated by Helen Constantine ; with an introduction and notes by Patrick McGuinness
Contributors: Constantine, Helen, translator; McGuinness, Patrick, editor
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780199664788
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Priests; Clergy; History
Work titles: Conquête de Plassans
Description: "The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly falls under the influence of the priest. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas gradually infiltrates into all quarters of the town, intent on political as well as religious conquest. Intrigue, slander, and insinuation tear the townsfolk apart, creating suspicion and distrust, and driving the Mourets to ever more extreme actions ... In one of the most psychological of his novels, Zola links small-town politics to the greater political and national dramas of the Second Empire"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Volume 4 of the author's Rougon-Macquart series.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi).

Translated from the French.