274 - ZOLA (Émile). — The Rougon-Macquart. A Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire. Vol. V.

ZOLA (Émile). — The Rougon-Macquart. A Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire. Vol. V. Complete edition edited by Armand Lanoux. Studies, notes, and variants by Henri Mitterand. Paris, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1978. In-12, publisher’s softcover bound in full green leather, spine decorated with gold fillets, without dust jacket or rhodoid. The fifth and final volume of the Rougon-Macquart series, Émile Zola’s vast novelistic epic devoted to the natural and social history of a family during the Second Empire. This volume notably includes *La Débâcle* and *Le Docteur Pascal*, which conclude the novel cycle. It is supplemented by studies, notes, variants, and documents compiled by Henri Mitterand, as well as a general index of characters. Volume No. 194 of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, printed on December 29, 1978, on Bible paper from Papeteries Bolloré by the Mame printing house in Tours. Bound by Babouot in Lagny. A copy from the 1978 printing, without a dust jacket or Rhodoid cover. Appears to be in good condition, with slight signs of wear.