Thérèse Raquin
Author: Émile Zola
Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Many readers were scandalized by Zola’s approach to character-drawing, which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based….Read More
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