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Title: Therese Raquin (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola, Leonard W. Tancock ISBN: 0-14-044120-4 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent read
Comment: I wanted to read love story which does not have happy ending. So I picked Zola's "Therese Raquin". It is a story of a woman, orphaned since her childhood, raised by her aunt and eventually married to her sickly cousin. Therese lives quiet live full of suppresion: sexual, monetary and intellectual. The first time she feels alive is when she manages to have wild extra marital affair with her husband's handsome, well-built, scheming office friend. Where Therese sees lust and love, her lover, Laurent, sees convenience: mistress he does not need to spend money on and can visit when it suits him. This brutal affair eventually ends with murder, mutual hate between Therese and Laurent and eventually suicide. Zola's storytelling is compelling. Book is a page turner, no matter how you feel about the events it describes. And even though one can expect tragic end, the magnitude of it is enourmous and leaves one stunned for quite some time...
Rating: 5
Summary: Classics won't scare you anymore
Comment: I just couldn't believe Emile Zola's genius when I heard that he wrote Therese Raquin on a newspaper manager's order of a detective novel.He simply read the newspapers for a clipping about murder and started writing it. What is surprising here is not how he started the novel but how he managed to make it a classic. It is a classic indeed, with an exception that I can offer it not only to "classics" readers but to any reader who is not conservative(for the book shows pure reality that is contrary to general taboos). It has everything that a classic should have: great use of language, a style(ie naturalism ), an insight to human feelings, mentality and conflicts, permanence through the years. What's more, it has everything that a bestseller should have,too: fascination, big events like murder, intrigues, love, hatred, sensuality. Perhaps you will find even more when you read the novel. It is everything one expects from a book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Therese Raquin
Comment: One of Zola's early works. Not his best. I agree it should have taken the form of a short story. I found it to be repetitive towards the end myself.
But as often is the case with Zola he can transport you to a time and place in the past that no longer exists and does so with tremendous descriptive style.
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Title: Nana. by Emile Zola, George Holden ISBN: 0140442634 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1972 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Debacle by Emile Zola, Leonard W. Tancock ISBN: 0140442804 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: March, 1973 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Earth by Emile Zola, Douglas Parmee ISBN: 0140443878 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1980 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Pot Luck: (Pot-Bouille) (Oxford World's Classics) by Emile Zola, Brian Nelson ISBN: 0192831798 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: L'Assommoir: The Dram Shop (Penguin Classics) by Emile Zola, Robin Buss ISBN: 0140447539 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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