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Theresa Raquin

Author
Emile Zola
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 36 minutes
ISBN
9781911065821
Published
25 July 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • passion
  • murder
  • guilt
  • paranoia
  • forbidden love
  • moral decay
  • realism
  • human psychology
  • crime
  • consequences

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Description

This intense novel follows Thérèse, trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin Camille, and her passionate affair with the alluring Laurent. Driven by their desire, the lovers conspire to murder Camille, but their crime sets off a haunting spiral of guilt and paranoia. Zola's masterful exploration of human psychology, moral decay, and the oppressive forces of society blends realism and dramatic intensity, making this novel a gripping study of passion and consequence.

Author

Emile Zola (1840–1902) grew up in Aix-en-Provence, failed his baccalaureat, and then mapped a France under pressure in the twenty novels of the Rougon-Macquart. L'Assommoir is drink and a Paris street; Germinal is the mine, the strike, the dark that works. He stood up for Dreyfus in J'Accuse...! and paid in exile. Naturalism was the method: heredity, milieu, a crowd that behaves like weather. The accusation is documentary.

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