La Fortune des Rougon: OEuvres completes - Les Rougon-Macquart, I

The first installment in the Rougon-Macquart saga, this tale establishes the history of a family eaten away by an original fissure. Depicting the romance between Miette and Silvere and the ferocious egotism of the Rougon clan, La Fortune des Rougon is as much a novel of the idyll as it is social satire.