# Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)

An audiobook by Émile Zola, read by LibriVox volunteers (14 h 37 min, English).

The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during the Second Empire, the family that grew out of the liaisons between Adelaide Fouque and her husband Rougons, and the smuggler Macquart. - Summary by Mark Leder

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