At the time of his death, his novels Fruitfulness, Labor, and Truth were the completed works in his unfinished Four Gospels series.  
At the time of his death, his novels Fruitfulness, Labor, and Truth were the completed works in his unfinished Four Gospels series.  An earlier trilogy, which contained works about Rome, Lourdes, and Paris, marked his return to novel writing after his foray into criticism, which produced the treatise The Experimental Novel.  Another set of novels, including The Human Beast, The Dram Shop, and The Belly of Paris, comprises his Rougon-Macquart Cycle, which follows a large family during the decline of France's Second Empire.  FTP, name this naturalist author of Nana and Germinal, who also penned a defense of Alfred Dreyfus with his "J'Accuse."
At the time of his death, his novels Fruitfulness, Labor, and Truth were the completed works in his unfinished Four Gospels series.  
Emile Zola