Bï¿½te Humaine

Name: Bï¿½te Humaine
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ISBN: 9780199538669

ISBN-10: 0199538662

ISBN-13: 9780199538669

Edition: 2009

Authors: ï¿½mile Zola, Roger Pearson

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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 Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil,…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English