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What are considered the most important of Émile Zola's novels?

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Of his many novels, those considered most important are among the 20 that constitute the series Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93), an account of the decay of a family as the result of heredity and environment, with special emphasis on alcoholism, disease, and degeneracy.

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