Luc Froment arrives in the grim steel town of Beauclair, sees the misery of its workers and resolves to build something better: a co-operative ironworks and a new city founded on shared labour and justice. The second of Zola’s late Four Gospels, it was translated by Ernest Vizetelly.
Zola’s utopian vision, a fascinating contrast to the darkness of Germinal. Download the free EPUB.