Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: 1800's France Murder Naxos

Written by Émile Zola
Read by Juliet Stevenson, Traci Svendsgaard
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Published in 1867, Thérèse Raquin is the novel that established Emile Zola’s reputation as a writer who forensically explored the darker side of human nature.

Thérèse is a half-Algerian orphan, brought up in provincial France by her aunt and married off to her sickly cousin Camille. His ambition takes the three of them to Paris, where they set up house in the dank and dingy backstreets that run down to the River Seine. The relentless tedium of life for Thérèse is eventually broken by the presence of Camille’s unscrupulous friend Laurent, sparking a series of increasingly desperate acts.

Thérèse Raquin is a gritty and thought-provoking novel of sexual compulsion and its consequences on the lives of four people and a tabby cat.

Juliet Stevenson narration (Naxos):
March 16 2022
8 hrs and 36 mins

Traci Svendsgaard narration (Blackstone):
August 22 2006
6 hrs and 40 mins