Eugène Sue ~5 hr read

In fifth-century Gaul, as Rome crumbles and the Franks press in, the proletarian family of Joel endures across the ages, here in the days of the rebel Bagauders and roving Vagres.

Eugène Sue's novel, part of 'The Mysteries of the People,' is a sweeping historical romance with fantastic and legendary elements. Vivid, epic, of its era. Read it for a stirring installment of Sue's grand multi-generational saga, following a Breton family's struggle for freedom through the turbulent twilight of Roman Gaul.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).