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💚 Charity Royall is one of just a few of Edith Wharton's heroines who didn't come from upper class society. She came from "up...

👗 The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) is one of my favorites from Zola. It is less "raw" than the others in Rougon-M...

🔶️ I always believe that Edith Wharton is the female Émile Zola, in terms of the Naturalism movement in her writing. This remar...

o once commented on my first review , that The Fortune of the Rougons won't probably be considered great if it were a standalone n...

Previous Classics Club Spin has introduced me to an interesting book – One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest - which I have dreaded, but glad...

Reading a political novel right after election (in Indonesia, where I live) is really not a good choice! But it's Zola, and I though...

The twelfth novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle turned out to be the most autobiographical of Zola's. He wrote The Bright Side of Lif...

Une Page d'Amour is the eight novel in Rougon-Macquart series, if you follow Zola's recommended order of reading. Helen Constan...

Finally...another masterpiece from Zola! One of those that blow your minds. The Conquest of Plassans follows the faiths of Marthe Ro...

Finally I can get to where the Rougon-Macquart series starts: The Fortune of the Rougons .  The Rougon-Macquart is Émile Zola’s monumenta...