Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
By Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret, the son of Francois and Marthe, is now a priest, in the little backwa... more