...are talking. Tell a journalist that " L'Assommoir " is only one of a series of twenty novels called " the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire," and he is utterly at sea. Had it not been for Drink, I do not know what the society journalists would...

...strange epoch of folly and shame. - This work, which will comprise several episodes, embodies in my mind the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire. And the first episode, " The Fortune of the Rougons," may, for scientific purposes, be very aptly entitled...

...them so, which is just coming to a close with Docteur Pascal in the columns of the Revue Hebdomadaire. In that preface, Zola undertook to show how "the slow...Second Empire." They are to be, according to his essay, " Le Roman Experimental" works of the most thorough realism, minute studies of social phenomena for...

...other by the re-appearance of the same characters, under the same title of the " Rougon-Macquarts, the natural and social history of a family under the second Empire." This idea involved the labor of more than twenty years. One of the earliest volumes was " La Curee,"...

...last part of the century that has caused so much comment as this series of twenty novels, relating the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire. It is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored in a history of literature, not only because of the variety...

...things, and reproduced them with fidelity. Let us see what he teaches us in regard to man and society in "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire." Iv. A writer cannot be judged by what he has attempted to do ; the only question is whether he has...

...urged against him that he had brought the theory of heredity into the programme of " Rougon-Macquart, the Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire." They objected that science did not affirm the absolute truth of the theory of heredity. That is true, but...

...efforts in this direction as a patient romance writer. He avowed this preoccupation in his romance of the " Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire," Dr. Pascal. It is through the character of Dr. Pascal that he explains his entire work of romance writing....

...impression that the family is a thing no longer to be tolerated. Zola calls his series of novels " The Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire," and leaves the impression that he portrays from actual observation the average family of the French...

...began that long series for which he has been so much censured, the twenty volumes of "Rougon-Macquart," the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire. Zola died by asphyxiation in 1902. THE FETE AT COQUEVILLE BY EMILE ZOLA COQUEVILLE is a little village...