Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141910658
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La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, 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, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress there remains, always, the beast within.
Language: en
Pages: 464
Pages: 464
La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, 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
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
CENTER PREPARE TO MEET THE BEAST WITHIN/center A lonely wife cheats. A brutal husband gets revenge. A not-so-innocent stranger hears a cellar door scrape shut—and begins twenty years of indescribable horror, chained in total darkness, feeding on live rats and human flesh, becoming himself the nightmare creature that lurks within
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Jag leads the war against the soulless Darkland beasts who took his wife. Immortal and destined to live with the vengeance that has ravaged his soul, he never thought he'd find solace in the heart of an innocent mortal. But Karen isn't just any mortal. . .
Language: en
Pages: 216
Pages: 216
Praise for the first edition: "...a brave and fascinating exploration of an area that has so far been rather neglected by both historical and literary critics. The Beast Within provides extremely valuable information on the legal and cultural background of the human-animal relationship..." -- Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Language: de
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Wie wurde aus dem schönen Prinzen das furchterregende Monster? Das Märchen von der Schönen und dem Biest kennen alle. Warum jedoch verändert sich der von seinem Volk einst so geliebte Prinz zu einem verbitterten, zurückgezogen lebenden Biest? Sein königlich vergoldetes Leben in Prunk und Schönheit zerfällt und er wird zutiefst
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
The tale is as old as time: a cruel prince is transformed into a beast. A lovely maiden comes into this monster's life. He is transformed by her compassion, and the love he feels for her in return. The two live happily ever after. But any tale, especially one as
Language: en
Pages: 247
Pages: 247
A fictional experience for mature audiences in which characters can fantasize, laugh, make mistakes, learn and grow. An adult kink fairy-tale that provokes minds and allows readers to escape into alternate mind dimensions.
Language: en
Pages: 219
Pages: 219
Being married to Ethan was going to be anything but the normal quiet life Kat wanted. Things had changed in more ways than one and she loved it. Things were looking good until they got back from their honeymoon to find an invitation to the reopening of the one place
Language: en
Pages: 100
Pages: 100
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224