La Bete Humaine (The Beast Within) - Emile Zola torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Book Seventeen Rougon-Macquart

Written by Emile Zola
Read by Leighton Pugh
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 civilisation the beast within us lurks.