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Two lovers drown an inconvenient husband, and the dead man will not leave them.
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Buried alive behind the counter of a dim arcade shop, married to the sickly cousin she was raised beside, Thérèse Raquin takes a lover, the coarse, animal Laurent. One afternoon on the Seine, the two of them drown her husband, and are free to marry.
In Émile Zola’s first masterpiece, the 1867 novel that scandalized France and made his name, remorse is no matter of the soul but of the nerves: a physical horror that turns two human brutes against each other, and against themselves. A founding book of literary Naturalism, as cold and exact as a police report and as relentless as a nightmare.
The complete novel in Edward Vizetelly’s public-domain translation, with the translator’s original preface, behind an original mixed media cover illustration by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Émile Zola (1840–1902)
- Translated by Edward Vizetelly (1901)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 230 pages