Therese Raquin

Émile Zola

⏱ 8 minFrench classic

A stifled young wife and her lover drown her feeble husband, and find that the crime, not the marriage, is what binds them, as guilt and the drowned man's ghost rot them from within. Zola's ferocious early novel of remorse.

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