The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart)

The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart)
Title The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart) PDF eBook
Author Emile Zola
Publisher Mondial
Pages 442
Release 2015-01-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1595691111

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In "The Downfall" Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to the death between two great nations. In it the author has put much of his finest work, and the result is one of the masterpieces of literature. The hero is Jean Macquart, son of Antoine Macquart and brother of Gervaise. After the terrible death of his wife, as told in "La Terre" ("The Soil"), Jean enlisted for the second time in the army, and went through the campaign up to the battle of Sedan. After the capitulation he was made prisoner, and in escaping was wounded. When he returned to active service he took part in crushing the excesses of the Commune in Paris... The Downfall has been described as "a prose epic of modern war," and vast though the subject be, it is treated in a manner that is powerful, painful, and pathetic.

The Downfall

The Downfall
Title The Downfall PDF eBook
Author Émile Zola
Publisher
Pages 624
Release 1892
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The Smash-up (La Debacle): The Downfall

The Smash-up (La Debacle): The Downfall
Title The Smash-up (La Debacle): The Downfall PDF eBook
Author Emile Zola
Publisher anboco
Pages 641
Release 2016-08-27
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3736412304

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La Débâcle is a novel by Émile Zola published in 1892, the penultimate in les Rougon-Macquart series. The story is set against the background of the political and military events that ended the reign of Napoléon III and the Second Empire in 1870, in particular the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune.

The Downfall

The Downfall
Title The Downfall PDF eBook
Author Émile Joseph Zola
Publisher
Pages 468
Release 2017-10-06
Genre
ISBN 9781977833556

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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 contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and revolutionary violence. It focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering in the midst of circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful description Zola ever wrote. Zola skilfully integrates his narrative of events and the fictional lives of his characters to provide the finest account of this tragic chapter in the history of France. Often compared to War and Peace, La Debacle has been described as a "seminal" work for all modern depictions of war.

La Debacle

La Debacle
Title La Debacle PDF eBook
Author Emile Zola
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 581
Release 2017
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0198801890

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La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.

The Downfall

The Downfall
Title The Downfall PDF eBook
Author Émile Zola
Publisher
Pages 594
Release 1893
Genre Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
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The Downfall

The Downfall
Title The Downfall PDF eBook
Author Émile Zola
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 609
Release 2022-09-15
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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In the middle of the broad, fertile plain that stretches away in the direction of the Rhine, a mile and a quarter from Mülhausen, the camp was pitched. In the fitful light of the overcast August day, beneath the lowering sky that was filled with heavy drifting clouds, the long lines of squat white shelter-tents seemed to cower closer to the ground, and the muskets, stacked at regular intervals along the regimental fronts, made little spots of brightness, while over all the sentries with loaded pieces kept watch and ward, motionless as statues, straining.