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Sprache: English
Autor(en): Émile Zola,
Genre(s): Allgemeine Belletristik, Historische Romane, Literarische Belletristik,
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[1/51] Introduction
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret, the son of Francois and Marthe, is now a priest, in the little backwater of Artauds. After he suffers a breakdown, with subsequent amnesia, however, he enters into a romance with the childlike Albine, which leads to catastrophe. - Summary by Mark Leder