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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos Audiobooks, 2021
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 28 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781781983553 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT14085088, 1781983550 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 14085088
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Read by Leighton Pugh
Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris to Le Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge and repression. In the wider cast of Zola's characters, too, we see just how close to the surface of civilisation the beast within us lurks
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