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.
- Author
- Émile Zola, A.N. Wilson, Andrew Brown
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 100
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781843910107
- Genres
- classics, fiction, france, literature
- Release date
- 2002
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