✍ Scribed by Émile Zola
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The 17th book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, this story tells of the darker side of human nature whilst society evolved in 19th century France. Zola took the developing railway and used it to allude to the contrast of 'it' and our own atavistic nature.
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