The Debacle by Émile Zola

The Debacle

Les Rougon-Macquart #19

Émile Zola with Leonard Tancock (Translator)

512 pages first pub 1892 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark reflective tense slow-paced
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The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contem...

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