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Émile Zola

Émile Zola was a French writer, the most well-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalisation of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. During his early years, Émile Zola wrote several short stories and essays, four plays and three novels. Among his early books was Contes à Ninon, published in 1864. With the publication of his sordid autobiographical novel La Confession de Claude (1865) attracting police attention, Hachette fired him. His novel Les Mystères de Marseille appeared as a serial in 1867. After his first major novel, Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola started the series called Les Rougon Macquart, about a family under the Second Empire. Zola died on 29 September 1902 of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an improperly ventilated chimney. His funeral on 5 October was attended by thousands, according to The New York Times.

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Thérèse Raquin: Performed by Kate Winslet

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Title:: Thérèse Raquin: Performed by Kate Winslet
Written by:: Émile Zola
Read by:: Kate Winslet
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 7
Duration:: 7 hours 55 minutes
Published:: December 28 2018
Available Date:: December 28 2018
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489464750
Genres:: Fiction; Classic Fiction; Literary Fiction; Romance
Publisher:: Bolinda/Audible audio

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Oscar winner Kate Winslet performs Émile Zola's most famous work – a haunting classic of passion and disaster.

Once upon a time, a teenaged Kate Winslet (The Reader, Titanic, Revolutionary Road) received a gift that would leave a lasting impression: a copy of Émile Zola’s classic Thérèse Raquin. Six Academy Award nominations and one Best Actress award later, she steps behind the microphone to perform this haunting classic of passion and disaster. Thérèse Raquin is the story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt. When her husband’s childhood friend enters her life, it leads to a torrid affair that sets her spirit free for the first time, but with shattering consequences. Steeped in the atmosphere of 19th-century France and with a darkly rich foreboding, it is a story that brings out the best of its narrator’s incomparable talents.

'This story seeps into your insides.'
Kate Winslet