TITLE: La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (Les Rougon-Maquart #5) (LDP #69/70)  

AUTHOR: Zola, Émile  

AUTHOR 2 (if applicable): n/a 

AUTHOR 3 (if applicable): n/a 

ILLUSTRATOR (if applicable): n/a 

PUBLISHER: Livre de Poche, Date: 1964  

ISBN: N/A (pre-ISBN publication)  

FORMAT: Paperback, 437 pages  

EDITION: Unstated Edition  

PRINTING [if applicable]: Unstated Printing  

BOOK CONDITION: Very Good  

JACKET CONDITION: No Jacket (As Issued)   

DIMENSIONS (if available): 7.00 x 4.25 x 0.75 in. approx.   

KEYWORDS: Émile Zola, La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret, Les Rougon-Maquart, French, Français, Livre de Poche, Texte intégral, 19th century, 19eme siècle  

DESCRIPTION: From the Wikipedia article:

La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (1875) is the fifth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquête de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provençal backwater village.[1]

Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and its use of amnesia as a plot device gives it an unusually fantastical tone.

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Vintage French language edition of Zola's novel, originally published in 1875, with an attractive wrap-around illustrated cover. Livre de Poche double edition, numbers 69-70.  

CONDITION: Light wear to covers, age-toned and slightly sprung, some bumping at corners. Binding tight; spine slightly creased. A few marks on the outside of the text block and some interior foxing. Text-block is age-toned as you might expect. Text block appears unmarked, apart from a pencil mark on IFEP and the previous owner's embossed stamp on the title page. An good-to-very good copy. 

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