In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment-romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Therese commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor’s interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; and churchgoing women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest. These are beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781780940915 ● Publisher Hesperus Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8024893 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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