Thérèse by François Mauriac
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"Thérèse" by François Mauriac is a novel published in 1927. Set in rural southwest France, it follows Thérèse Desqueyroux after she stands trial for poisoning her husband Bernard with arsenic. Though evidence against her is strong, the case is dismissed when her family intervenes to avoid scandal. During her journey home, Thérèse reflects on her suffocating life as a Catholic landowner's wife and tries to understand what drove her actions—yet neither she
nor the narrator offers a clear explanation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mauriac, François, 1885-1970 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Sutton, Eric |
| Uniform Title | Thérèse Desqueyroux. English |
| Title | Thérèse |
| Original Publication | New York: Boni & Liveright Inc., 1928. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Desqueyroux_(novel) |
| Credits | Carol Brown, Lukas Bystricky and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Landes (France : Region) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Wives -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 73670 |
| Release Date | May 22, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 500 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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