The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume‪)‬

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Les Rougon-Macquart is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire), it follows the life of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire (1852–1870) and is an example of French naturalism.

Table of Contents:

1.La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
2.La Curée (1871-2)
3.Le Ventre de Paris (1873)
4.La Conquête de Plassans (1874)
5.La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875)
6.Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
7.L'Assommoir (1877)
8.Une Page d'amour (1878)
9.Nana (1880)
10.Pot-Bouille (1882)
11.Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
12.La Joie de vivre (1884)
13.Germinal (1885)
14.L'Œuvre (1886)
15.La Terre (1887)
16.Le Rêve (1888)
17.La Bête humaine (1890)
18.L'Argent (1891)
19.La Débâcle (1892)
20.Le Docteur Pascal (1893)


The series began with La Fortune des Rougon (The Fortune of the Rougons), which introduces the Rougonsand the Macquarts. Zola examines the impact of environment by varying the social, economic, and professional milieu in which each novel takes place. La Curée (The Kill) explores the land speculation and financial dealings that accompanied the renovation of Paris during the Second Empire. Le Ventre de Paris (Savage Paris; also translated as The Fat and the Thin) examines the structure of the Halles, the vast central marketplace of Paris. Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (His Excellency Eugène Rougon) traces the machinations and maneuverings of cabinet officials in Napoleon III’s government.

L’Assommoir ( Drunkard)shows the effects of alcoholism in a working-class neighbourhood by focusing on the rise and decline of a laundress, Gervaise Macquart. Nanafollows the life of Gervaise’s daughter as her economic circumstances and hereditary penchants lead her to a career as an actress, then a courtesan. Au Bonheur des dames (Ladies’ Delight) depicts the mechanisms of a new economic entity, the department store, and its impact on smaller merchants.

Germinaldepicts life in a mining community by highlighting relations between the bourgeoisie and the working class. A quite different work, L’Oeuvre (The Masterpiece), explores the milieu of the...