The Conquest of Plassans (Rougon-Macquart) by Zola, Emile

Mondial. Bright and crisp copy with clean pages. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 2005.

New York - Berlin: Mondial, 2005. First Mondial Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. Dhar, Uday K. - Cover Painting. 307 Pages. No marks or stamps. Interior text pages are flawless. The Rougon family rises to fortune, and the town of Plassans (Aix-en-Provence) bows down before its power. But time passes and the clergy with their influence cause the town to choose a Royalist Marquis as deputy, and it becomes necessary to conquer it once again. Abb Faujas, by whom this conquest is achieved on behalf of the Empire, is a strongly conceived character, perhaps the most real of all the priests that are scattered through Zola's books. No other priestly creation of the author exceeds the stern, chaste, authoritative, ambitious Faujas, the man who subdues Plassans, and who wrecks the home of the Mouret family, with whom he lives. The book largely deals with the matter of the priest in the house, and towards the end Mouret, the husband who has been driven mad and shut up in a lunatic asylum,… Read More

Mondial, 2005-11-07. Paperback. Very Good. 2.3982 in x 21.1839 in x 13.9894 in.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.