His Excellency Eugène Rougon (Oxford World's Classics)  -  Émile Zola

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'He loved power for power's sake . . . He was without question the greatest of the Rougons.'

His Excellency Eugène Rougon (1876) is the sixth novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle. A political novel set in the corridors of power and in the upper echelons of French Second Empire society, including the Imperial court, it focuses on the fluctuating fortunes of the authoritarian Eugène Rougon, the "vice-Emperor." But it is more than just a chronicle. It plunges the reader into the essential dynamic...
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2018 Uitgever: Oxford University Press 384 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0198748256 ISBN-13: 9780198748250