In Secret / Émile Zola ; translated and edited with a preface and an afterword by Edward Vizetelly.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2014Description: ix, 225 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0143123556 (pbk.)
- 9780143123552 (pbk.)
- Thérèse Raquin. English
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Zola Emile | Available | 33111007521988 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Emile Zola's story of adultery, murder, and madness--soon to be a major motion picture starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Lange
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever. Therese caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and brought its twenty-seven-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout his life. Zola's novel is not only an uninhibited portrayal of adultery, madness, and ghostly revenge, but also a devastating exploration of the darkest aspects of human existence.
"This translation by Edward Vizetelly first published as Thérèse Raquin in Great Britain by Grant Richards 1902"--Title page verso.
"In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever"--Page 4 of cover.