{"product_id":"the-fortune-of-the-rougons-paperback-2","title":"The Fortune of the Rougons - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmile Zola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Fortune of the Rougons\" is the initial volume of the Rougon-Macquart series. Though it was by no means M. Zola's first essay in fiction, it was undoubtedly his first great bid for genuine literary fame, and the foundation of what must necessarily be regarded as his life-work. The idea of writing the \"natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire,\" extending to a score of volumes, was doubtless suggested to M. Zola by Balzac's immortal \"Comedie Humaine.\" He was twenty-eight years of age when this idea first occurred to him; he was fifty-three when he at last sent the manuscript of his concluding volume, \"Dr. Pascal,\" to the press. He had spent five-and-twenty years in working out his scheme, persevering with it doggedly and stubbornly, whatever rebuffs he might encounter, whatever jeers and whatever insults might be directed against him by the ignorant, the prejudiced, and the hypocritical. Truth was on the march and nothing could stay it; even as, at the present hour, its march, if slow, none the less continues athwart another and a different crisis of the illustrious novelist's career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 106\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.22 x 11.02 x 8.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 09, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730801102911,"sku":"9781515009573","price":11.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f224ee4f2b87b93d2892aa78d6ab4f92.webp?v=1765126805","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-fortune-of-the-rougons-paperback-2","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}