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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... read more

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THERESE RAQUIN is the earliest of Emile Zola's novels to have maintained a position as a literary work of some intrinsic value and not merely as one of his historically interesting juvenilia or worthless pot-boilers.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Emile Zola (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Robin Buss (Translator)
 

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