La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)

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La Bête Humaine [The Beast Within] (English Edition)

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

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Against the backdrop of political and legal corruption in Second Empire France, La Bête Humaine (1890) contrasts the technological advancements of the Machine Age with the primitive and timeless human impulse to possess through killing and to kill through possession. The lives of two railwaymen on the Paris-to-Le-Havre line are fatally entwined by their love for the same woman in this shocking account of brutal violence, greed, revenge, and repression. In the wider cast of Zola’s characters, too, we see just how close to the surface of civilization the beast within us lurks.

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Public Domain (P)2021 Naxos AudioBooks UK Ltd.

Émile ZolaLeighton PughNaxos AudioBooksRougon-Macquart

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