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The Beast Within (1890) is a novel by French author mile Zola. The seventeenth of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens... Read Full Overview

His haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy, Emile Zola's The Beast Within (La Bete Humaine) is translated from the French with an introduction and notes by Roger Whitehouse in Penguin Classics. Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers... Read Full Overview

La B te 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... Read Full Overview

Roubaud, sous-chef de gare au Havre, employ mod le, mais ayant t injustement l'objet d'une plainte d'un usager, est mont Paris, pour se justifier. Sa femme S verine en a profit pour l'accompagner et faire quelques emplettes. Il apprend de la bouche de S verine que Grandmorin,... Read Full Overview

One of Zola's most violent works, this novel is on one level a tale of murder and possession, and on another a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. It evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, and a society hurtling... Read Full Overview

Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La B te Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives... Read Full Overview

Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), 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... Read Full Overview

En entrant dans la chambre, Roubaud posa sur la table le pain d'une livre, le p't? et la bouteille de vin blanc. Mais, le matin, avant de descendre ? son poste, la m?re Victoire avait d? couvrir le feu de son po?le, d'un tel poussier, que la chaleur ?tait suffocante. Et le sous-chef... Read Full Overview

Some impulses cannot be controlled. Some beasts cannot be caged.

Jacques Lantier is a skilled train engineer on the Paris-Le Havre line-competent, respected, seemingly normal. But Jacques harbors a terrible secret: when he desires a woman, he also wants to kill... Read Full Overview

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern."... Read Full Overview

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L'historie du monde du chemin de fer et se d roule tout au long de la ligne Paris-Saint-Lazare - Le Havre. Entre les deux gares, d crites avec une grande pr cision, les h ros ne cessent d'osciller, dans un trajet pendulaire, jouets des passions... Read Full Overview

An all new translation of the Zola classic.

La B te humaine est un roman d' mile Zola publi en 1890, le dix-septi me volume de la s rie Les Rougon-Macquart. L'histoire voque le monde du chemin de fer et se d roule tout au long de la ligne Paris-Le Havre. On a coutume de dire qu'elle comporte deux h ros: d'une part le... Read Full Overview

Roubaud sous chef de gare a pous S verine, une jeune fille qui au d c s de ses parents a t adopt e par M. Grandmorin, pr sident de la compagnie ferroviaire.Apprenant que sa jeune femme a t abus e par son tuteur durant sa jeunesse., il d cide avec la complicit de sa femme... Read Full Overview

The Beast Within (1890) is a novel by French author mile Zola. The seventeenth of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class, and history that traces the disparate paths of several French citizens... Read Full Overview

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview