I grandi libri: Ferragus
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading



La Débâcle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1.
Emma Bovary, the wife of a provincial doctor, seeks to escape her boredom by indulging in romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs.