Thérèse Raquin (RED) - Softcover

Zola, Émile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141194359 ISBN 13: 9780141194356

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

Thérèse Raquin is bored by her loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, and allows herself to be swept away by lust and excitement when she meets his earthy and sensual friend Laurent. But the animal passion between them will result in a terrible crime - one that will haunt them for ever.

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Product Description:

Therese Raquin is bored by her loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, and allows herself to be swept away by lust and excitement when she meets his earthy and sensual friend Laurent. But the animal passion between them will result in a terrible crime - one that will haunt them for ever.

Review:

Seeps into your insides (Kate Winslet)

one never reads Zola without being drawn into the sharp-edged cinema noir ... The greatest of all the journalist-novelists. (Daily Telegraph)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0141194359
• ISBN 13: 9780141194356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208