La Bête humaine by Émile Zola
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"La Bête humaine" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1890, the seventeenth volume in the Rougon-Macquart series. Set along the Paris-Le Havre railway line, it follows Jacques Lantier, a train engineer who suffers from hereditary murderous impulses triggered by sexual desire. When a railway executive is brutally murdered, Jacques becomes entangled with Séverine Roubaud and her husband in a dark web of jealousy, violence, and deadly secrets. This thriller shocked
Zola's contemporaries with its catalog of crimes and catastrophes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | La Bête humaine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine |
| Credits | This eBook was produced by Carlo Traverso |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 5154 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-05154-3 |
| Release Date | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Jul 13, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 711 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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