Thérèse Raquin

by Émile Zola, Tracy Svensgaard (Narrated by)

Overview

One of Zola's most famous realistic novels, Thérèse Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society. Zola's shocking tale dispassionately dissects the motivations of his characters--mere "human beasts", who kill in order to satisfy their lust--and stands as a key manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which the author was the founding father.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786153886
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	12/19/2006
Edition description:	Unabridged

About the Author

Émile Zola was born in Paris in 1840, raised at Aix-en-Provence in a poor family whose father died seven years after his birth. Zola was educated at the College Bourbon at Aix, and at the Lycee Saint-Louis in Paris, but upon failing his baccalaureat in 1859 began working as a clerk. In the mid 1860s he decided to support himself by literature alone. After publishing several of his great masterworks, in 1868 Zola began his incredible series of novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, consisting of over twenty fictions intended to reveal scientifically the effects of heredity and environment on one family; it is one of the chief monuments of the French Naturalist Movement and includes some of Zola’s best writing. Zola died in 1902.