For a night of love / Emile Zola ; [introduction and English language translation, Andrew Brown ; foreword by A.N. Wilson].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

100 pages

Standardized Title:

Pour une nuit d'amour. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902--Translations into English.

Zola, Émile.

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.

Deception--Fiction.

Deception.

Discontent.

Discontent--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 100 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Hesperus, 2002.

Language Note:

Translated from the French.

Summary:

In these three short stories, Emile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment--romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Therese commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor's interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; church-going women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest--beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent.

Contents:

For a Night of Love 1

Nantas 47

Fasting 89.

ISBN:

1843910101

OCLC:

49873573