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Thérèse Raquin [teʁɛz ʁakɛ̃] is an 1868 novel by French writer Émile Zola, first published in serial form in the literary magazine L'Artiste in 1867. It was Zola's third novel, though the first to earn wide fame.
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- Author
- Émile Zola
- First published
- 1886
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., eBooksLib, Blackstone Audiobooks
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9783518394939
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“THERESE RAQUIN is the earliest of Emile Zola's novels to have maintained a position as a literary work of some intrinsic value and not merely as one of his historically interesting juvenilia or worthless pot-boilers.”
Emile Zola was a French journalist and novelist known for his series of 20 novels known collectively as Les Rougon-Macquart (1871-93). Zola's style was called literary naturalism; his novels were attacked and even banned for their frankness and sordid detail, and caused quite a bit of controversy in their day. The same traits made him a best-selling author and a star of French literature in his day. In 1898 he then further incurred the wrath of French officials when he published the open letter "J'Accuse," in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, an Army officer who had been convicted of treason. Zola was sentenced to prison for libel, fled to England, and was granted amnesty a few months later. He die
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