> Skip to content
  • Published: 25 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141920481
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Thérèse Raquin




A story of adultery, murder and madness that was denounced by Le Figero as "putrid" when it was first published and earned its 27 year old author an enduring notoriety

Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime. Published in 1867, this is Zola's most important work before the Rougon-Macquart series and introduces many of the themes that can be traced through the later novel cycle.

  • Published: 25 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141920481
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Other books in the series

On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

About the author

Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.

Also by Emile Zola

See all