Description for The Dream
Paperback. Provides a detailed portrait of provincial nineteenth-century life. Adhering to a naturalist approach, this book eschews many of the characteristics of the author's other novels of the "Rougon-Macquart" cycle - such as a pronounced polemical agenda or a gritty subject matter - offering instead a lyrical tale of love and innocence. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
"Finding the young Angélique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fuelled by her reading of the Golden Legend and other mystical Christian writings. One day love, in the shape of Felicien Hautecoeur, enters the dream world she has constructed around herself, bringing about upheaval and distress. Although it provides a detailed portrait of provincial nineteenth-century ... Read more
"Finding the young Angélique on their doorstep one Christmas Eve, the pious Hubert couple decide to bring her up as their own. As the girl grows up in the vicinity of the town’s towering cathedral and learns her parents’ trade of embroidery, she becomes increasingly fascinated by the lives of the saints, a passion fuelled by her reading of the Golden Legend and other mystical Christian writings. One day love, in the shape of Felicien Hautecoeur, enters the dream world she has constructed around herself, bringing about upheaval and distress. Although it provides a detailed portrait of provincial nineteenth-century ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Richmond, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847493118
SKU
V9781847493118
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Emile Zola
Émile Zola (1840-1902) is the foremost representative of the Naturalist school, and is best remembered for Thérèse Raquin and his twenty-novel cycle, The Rougon Macquarts.
Reviews for The Dream
I consider Zola’s books among the very best of the present time.
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh