Therese Raquin by Emile Zola, Fiction, Classics - Softcover

Zola, Emile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603124519 ISBN 13: 9781603124515

Publisher: Aegypan, 2008

Synopsis

Raised alongside her sickly cousin, Therese lives the quietest of lives. Yet something impetuous and wild stirs within her -- as she learns of herself during moments of escape into the countryside.

But now the family is in Paris, taking over a mercer's shop in the dingy Arcade of the Pont Neuf. To appease the aunt who has cared for her, she marries her pale, nerve-wracked cousin. Then a schoolmate of her husband's appears -- almost his complete opposite, with full voice, jovial laughter -- and a strapping build that givers her nervous pangs to contemplate . . .

And a new Therese, one her aunt or husband has never known, threatens to break free of the restraints that have bound her, all these years!

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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 the Author:

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1603124519
• ISBN 13: 9781603124515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172