The beast within
by Zola, Émile
A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Emile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bete Humaine-to be his "most finely worked" novel. This new translation finally captures his fast- paced yet deliberately dispassionate style. Set at the end of the Second Empire, when French society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new railways and locomotives it was building, The Beast Within is at once a tale of m…
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- Full title :The beast within / Émile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse.
Summary
A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Emile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bete Humaine-to be his "most finely worked" novel. This new translation finally captures his fast- paced yet deliberately dispassionate style. Set at the end of the Second Empire, when French society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new railways and locomotives it was building, The Beast Within is at once a tale of murder, passion, and possession and a compassionate study of individuals derailed by the burden of inherited evil. In it, Zola expresses the hope that human nature evolves through education but warns that the beast within continues to lurk beneath the veneer of technological progress. (Barnes & Noble).
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (liv, 405 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781101160152, 1101160152, 9781101160619, 1101160616, 9780141910659, 0141910658
- oclc:ocn664134008
- LC Classification:PQ2498
- Dewey Decimal:843.8
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