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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic feeling; celibacy and temptation
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of faith, religious corruption, and the crisis of belief
What this book is about
The second volume of Zola's Three Cities Trilogy (1896), following Father Pierre Froment as he travels to Rome to plead for a condemned book and encounters the Vatican's corruption. More meditative than Zola's naturalist fiction. For older teens and adults.
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