Thérèse Raquin
By: Nicholas Wright ; from an original work by Émile Zola
Contributors: Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Adultery; Drama
Description: Stifled by an oppressive mother-in-law and a sickly husband, Thérèse Raquin falls passionately for anther man. Their feverish affair drives the lovers to an act of terrible desperation, which catapults them headlong into a world more claustrophobic than the one they originally sought to destroy.
Notes: Previously issued in print: London: Nick Hern Books, 2006.