Abbe Mouret’s Transgression (Esprios Classics)

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Abbe Mouret’s Transgression (La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret) (1875) is the fifth novel in Emile Zola’s twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Viciously anticlerical in tone, it follows on from the horrific events at the end of La Conquete de Plassans, focussing this time on a remote Provencal backwater village. Unusually for Zola, the novel contains very few characters and locations, and the level of realist observation compared to outright fantasy is most uncharacteristic; however, the novel remains extraordinarily powerful and readable, and is considered one of Zola’s most linguistically inventive and well-crafted works.