1884 La Joie de Vivre

Description

"Twelfth thousand" edition. In the original French. 

Bound in half paper vellum, with marbled boards.

'La Joie de Vivre' is the twelfth novel in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. The twenty-volume series (Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire) follows the family members of two titular branches of a fictional family living during the Second French Empire. 

Zola was a twice Nobel Prize nominated French novelist, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalisation of France and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...!