Le ventre de Paris (English edition) by Émile Zola

Le ventre de Paris (English edition)

Les Rougon-Macquart #3

Émile Zola

214 pages • first pub 1873 (editions)

fiction classics literary dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
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Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recogniz...

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3.87
based on 593 reviews

Moods

informative: 61%

reflective: 47%

dark: 42%

sad: 37%

emotional: 32%

funny: 27%

challenging: 20%

adventurous: 16%

tense: 15%

inspiring: 8%

lighthearted: 3%

mysterious: 3%

hopeful: 1%

Pace

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44% of readers chose medium
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56% of readers chose Character
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14% of readers chose Complicated
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