A Love Episode - Couverture souple

Zola, Emile

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1595690271 ISBN 13 : 9781595690272

Editeur : MONDIAL, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Emile Zola Chauncey C Starkweather

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated with a preface by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.
PREFACE. " I will make all Paris weep," said M. Zola to a friend when he had schemed out the plot of Une Page d'Amour, here freely rendered into English under the title of A Love Episode ; and certainly, though one explore the entire domain of fiction, it is difficult to find a more pathetic story than that of Helene Grandchamp's struggle with passion, her fall, and bitter punishment. Helene, as Mr. Andrew Lang has rightly pointed out, is a good and pure woman upon whom the fate of her family falls, with the result that she loves a kind of Dr. Brand Firmin, like the father of Philip in Thackeray's story. Critics have frequently contended that M. Zola's realism is confined to outward and visible things; but A Love Episode embraces psychology of no mean order, and repeatedly shows us that its author can, when he chooses, probe the human soul to its utmost depths. And whatever charges may be levelled against some of M. Zola's works, nobody can say that this tale tends to corrupt a

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MONDIAL
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595690271
• ISBN 13: 9781595690272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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