{"product_id":"2940158723780","title":"Emile Zola The Downfall","description":"The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Downfall (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Downfall seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in an overwhelming military defeat and revolutionary violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZola focuses on ordinary soldiers, showing their bravery and suffering amid circumstances they cannot control, and includes some of the most powerful descriptions ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften compared to War and Peace, The Downfall has been described as a foundational work for all modern representations of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublication sparked controversy that made it a best-seller overnight, and it has long reigned as a classic of French literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEMILE ZOLA (1840-1902) was a French writer, a major figure in the literary school of naturalism and a major contributor to the development of the modern novel. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901 and 1902.","brand":"Griffin Classic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115807621360,"sku":"2940158723780","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158723780_p0.jpg?v=1764118384","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158723780","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}