The Rougon-Macquart Series: Natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire
'The Monomaniac' narrates Jacques Lantiereâs perpetual yet ultimately catastrophic descent into a maelstrom of madness unfolding upon the railroads between Paris and Le Havre during the late 19th Century. The protagonist Lantiere, a deputy station master by day, suspects his wife of infidelity by n
