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Cover of The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

The Fortune of the Rougons

1886·368 pages

Historical Fiction

I want to explain how a family, a small group of beings, behaves in a society, flourishing to give birth to ten, twenty individuals who appear, at first glance, profoundly dissimilar, but that analysis shows intimately linked to each other. Heredity has its laws, like gravity.

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The Fortune of the Rougons

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1886

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368

Historical Fiction

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I want to explain how a family, a small group of beings, behaves in a society, flourishing to give birth to ten, twenty individuals who appear, at first glance, profoundly dissimilar, but that analysis shows intimately linked to each other. Heredity has its laws, like gravity.

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