{"product_id":"therese-raquin","title":"Therese Raquin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThr?se Raquin\u003c\/em\u003e is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply conservative society, but also the whole code of psychological description on which the realist novel was based. Together with the important `Preface to the Second Edition' in which Zola defended himself against charges of immorality, \u003cem\u003eThr?se Raquin\u003c\/em\u003e stands as a key early manifesto of the French Naturalist movement, of which Zola was the founding father. Even today, this novel has lost none of its power to shock.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264414368038,"sku":"therese-raquin","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c7acec7f-aadf-4569-93f7-d14d35dd3563.jpg?v=1701096984","url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/products\/therese-raquin","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}