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For a Night of Love

In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment — romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor’s interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; and churchgoing women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest. These are beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 100
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781843910107
  • Genres
  • classics, fiction, france, literature
  • Release date
  • 2002