Émile Zola

Thérèse Raquin is bored by her loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, and allows herself to be swept away by lust and excitement when she meets his earthy and sensual friend Laurent. But the animal passion between them will result in a terrible crime - one that will haunt them for ever. 'Seeps into your insides' Kate Winslet 'One never reads Zola without being drawn into the sharp-edged cinema noir . . . The greatest of all the journalist-novelists' Daily Telegraph

Thrse Raquin : Penguin Red Classic

Beatrix

Never had despair fallen more rigorously on a being, the sinister truth like a flash of flame scorched the eyes of the paralysed woman and penetrated within her with the concussion of a shaft of lightning. 

… and she had remained a child, senselessly believing in a thousand silly things and unable to see life as it really is, dragging along in sanguinary filth of passions.

..now it only remained for her to die, denying love, denying friendship, denying devotedness. Nothing existed but murder and lust.

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