Eugène Sue’s The Wandering Jew, published in serial form in 1844 and 1845, was one of the greatest publishing sensations of nineteenth-century France. Enormous in scope, it weaves together the stories of a vast cast of characters — heirs to a great fortune being conspired against by the Jesuits — across multiple continents, told with Sue’s flair for melodrama, social outrage, and working-class sympathy.
A key text for understanding the social novel of the 1840s and its enormous popular reach, the complete edition makes for compulsive reading. Download it as a free EPUB today.