Thérèse by François Mauriac

"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
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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