The Beast Within - Émile Zola

One of Zola's most dark and violent works—a tense thriller of political corruption and a graphic exploration of the criminal mindA key work in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Beast Within is Emile Zola's haunting, impressionistic study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy. Roubaud is consumed by a jealous rage when he discovers a sordid secret about his young wife's past. The only way he can rest is by forcing her to help him murder the man involved, but there is a witness—Jacques Lantier, a fellow... Zobrazit více