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Complete order of Emile Zola books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
1 sty 2024 · Browse our complete guide to all 20 Rougon Macquart books in order (from the series written by Emile Zola). Plus, we’ve organized our list in order.
1 sty 2024 · Browse our complete guide to all 52 Émile Zola books in order (from the series written by Émile Zola). Plus, we’ve organized our list in order.
Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola Author Emile Zola penned the “Rougon-Macquart” series of novels, and was translated into English (from their original French) by Arthur Goldhammer. The books began publication in the year 1871, when “The Fortune of the Rougons” was released.
Les Rougon-Macquart (French pronunciation: [le ʁuɡɔ̃ makaʁ]) is the collective title given to a cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola.
The Earth (1887) The Dream (1888) The Beast Within (1890) Money (1891) Le Débâcle (1892) Doctor Pascal (1893) Zola himself suggested a reading order that generally moves from novels depicting the social heights of the Second Empire to novels depicting the people most tread underfoot.
The novels can be read in the order they were written, which preserves the original variety and flow of the narrative, or in a more chronological order which Zola lists in the final volume, "Doctor Pascal". As of 2020, all of the volumes are available in contemporary translations, including a complete series from Oxford's World's Classics. flag.