{"product_id":"2940000748800","title":"Rome","description":"Emile Zola was an elegant writer -- more elegant than his reputation as a political firebrand might suggest. Zola's most famous work was a newspaper article: his impassioned defense of imprisoned Captain Alfred Dreyfus, \u003ci\u003e\"J'accuse.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRome\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Cities (Les Trois Villes),\u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1896. The first volume tells of the troubled priest Pierre Froment's journey to \u003ci\u003eLourdes,\u003c\/i\u003e hoping to find a cure for his spiritual doubts. In \u003ci\u003eRome,\u003c\/i\u003e Pierre travels to the Holy City, hoping to persuade the Pope to approve of his Christian, socialist theories. The final book of the trilogy, \u003ci\u003eParis,\u003c\/i\u003e tells of Pierre's return to the City of Light, watching the fall of Catholicism, and the rise of Pierre's new \"faith\" of scientific rationalism. A continuation of Zola's great twenty-novel sequence, \u003ci\u003eLes Rougon-Macquart,\u003c\/i\u003e among which are \u003ci\u003eNana, Germinal,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Débâcle, Rome\u003c\/i\u003e is a book written by Zola at the end of his career, during which his powers were thought to be at their highest.","brand":"B\u0026R Samizdat Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179814371568,"sku":"2940000748800","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940000748800_p0.jpg?v=1763544968","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940000748800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}