The Beast Within
$22.99
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2008
Summary
New translation by Roger Whitehouse for this tale of murder, passion, and possession
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola’s most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his ‘most finely worked’ novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449631 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449639 |
| Author: | Émile Zola |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Émile Zola
Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist and critic, the founder of the Naturalist movement in literature. Among Zola’s most important works is his famous Rougon-Macquart cycle (1871-1893), which included such novels as L’Assomoir (1877), about the suffering of the Parisian working-class, Nana (1880), dealing with prostitution, and Germinal (1885).
Roger Whitehouse has taught at the Sorbonne and at Bolton Institute, where he is a research fellow.
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