Also published as: The Downfall

Author: Emile Zola Year: 1892 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Free books, Historical fiction Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Google Books Goodreads eBooks.com ManyBooks Project Gutenberg FadedPage LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781595691118 1595691111

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate. But after they are thrown together during the disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, the pair are compelled to understand one other. Forging a profound friendship, they must struggle together to endure a disorganised and brutal war, the savage destruction of France's Second Empire and the fall of Napoleon III. One of the greatest of all war novels, The Debacle is the nineteenth novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A forceful and deeply moving tale of close friendship, it is also a fascinating chronicle of the events that were to lead, in the words of Zola himself, to "the murder of a nation". This book is part of the "Les Rougon-Macquart" series. Here are some other books from this series: "The Dream" First published in 1888 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Germinal" First published in 1885 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Joy of Life" First published in 1883 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Ladies' Paradise" First published in 1883 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Pot Luck" First published in 1882 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "Nana" First published in 1880 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: "The Sin of Father Mouret" First published in 1875 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: Pot Luck by Emile Zola The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola Nana by Emile Zola Germinal by Emile Zola The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett The Gods are Athirst by Anatole France The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Beloved by Toni Morrison Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe