The Masterpiece, Émile Zola - Book Review

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The Fortune of the Rougons (series)

1 - The Fortune of the Rougons (1871)
2 - The Kill // The Rush for the Spoil (1871)
3 - The Belly of Paris; Or, the Fat and the Thin (1873)
4 - The Conquest Of Plassans (1874)
5 - Abbe Mouret's Transgression (1875)
6 - His Excellency (1876)
7 - The Drinking Den (1877)
8 - A Love Episode (1878)
9 - Nana (1880)
10 - Piping Hot! (1882)
11 - The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
12 - The Joy Of Life (1884)
13 - Germinal (1885)
14 - His Masterpiece (1886)
15 - The Earth (1887)
16 - The Dream (1888)
17 - The Beast Within (1890)
18 - Money (1891)
19 - The Debacle: 1870-71 (1892)
20 - Doctor Pascal (1893)


La Fortune des Rougon (1871)
La Curée (1871–2)
Le Ventre de Paris (1873)
La Conquête de Plassans (1874)
La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875)
Son Excellence Eugène Rougon (1876)
L'Assommoir (1877)
Une page d'amour (1878)
Nana (1880)
Pot-Bouille (1882)
Au Bonheur des Dames (1883)
La joie de vivre (1884)
Germinal (1885)
L'Œuvre (1886)
La Terre (1887)
Le Rêve (1888)
La Bête humaine (1890)
L'Argent (1891)
La Débâcle (1892)
Le Docteur Pascal (1893)

0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Zola's plan
1:45 - Simple plot
5:18 - Second plot
7:13 - Zola and Cezanne
12:13 - The Artist Struggles
13:43 - My story
15:00 - The New Obsession