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La Bête Humaine(Reprint)
(Oxford World's Classics)
von Émile Zola, Roger Pearson, Mile Zola
Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953866-9, ISBN: 0-19-953866-2

"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 derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Se ..."

The Masterpiece(Reprint)
(Oxford World's Classics)
von Émile Zola, Thomas Walton, Roger Pearson, Mile Zola
Paperback, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953691-7, ISBN: 0-19-953691-0

"The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deform ..."