The first modern translation for more than fifty years and the first critical edition of His Excellency Eugène Rougon, the sixth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series.
The novel follows the career of a powerful politician, Eugäne Rougon. A key player in Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'etat of 1851, Rougon is the very embodiment of the corrupt and autocratic Second Empire.
Only the second new translation since the nineteenth century.
Brian Nelson is the established translator of five other Zola novels in Oxford World's Classics.
Includes chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes.