Publisher's Synopsis
"Fruitfulness" by author Emile Zola is a novel with a radical endorsement of a prolife philosophy in a time when fellow novelists and social reformers accepted as inevitable or actively promoted small families, contraception, and population control. Emile Zola, shows us in this novel his views on the Catholic Church and science and his philosophy of "salvation through love" and its relation to the family and procreation."
