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Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Henrietta's House by Elizabeth Goudge Original Categories: Doctor Thorne, Therese Raquin, Utopia, A Modern Comedy, Steppenwolf, The Counterlife
Extra Credit: The Wild Geese Therese Raquin **½
by Emile Zola
06/27/08
The Magician's Nephew *
by C.S. Lewis
06/27/08
Utopia (#135) ***
by Thomas More
06/27/08
The Wild Geese ****½
by Ogai Mori
06/28/08
The Silver Spoon ***
by John Galsworthy
06/29/08
Rashomon and Other Stories ***½
by ... ... because they were part of what an educated person was supposed to know of.
So - The emigrants, People of Hemso and Therese Raquin; off you go! ... Camus *****
8. Germinal by Émile Zola ****
Double
9. Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo ***½
10. Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola ***
11. À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs by Marcel Proust ****
12. À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans ***½
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16. I imagine he was forced to the same as the rest of us. I liked Therese Raquin, but the one about the miners, whatever it was called, was a forced march in wooden clogs. ... in with "the naturalists". Others so branded - I'm thinking of Zola and Dreiser - have put me to sleep (though I did enjoy Therese Raquin). ... dialect and the 17th centry dialect is hard to understand - but the twentieth centry dialect is good. I also finished Teresa Raquin which I enjoyed - it was very gripping and well translated.
I am now 1/3 way The human stain which I am immensely enjoying. I also plan to finish Adjunc ... I finished The remains of the day and The devil and miss prym and am now reading Love in the time of cholera and Teresa Raquin. Oh, yes, I forgot - Therese Raquin, Hemsöborna and Heart of darkness. Three books I absolutely couldn't force myself to finish. All required reading in school. Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Therese Raquin by Emile Zola
Ulysses by James Joyce (atleast according to Dante)
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (perhaps, depending on feelings on adultery)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Sco ... #22
If you like Zola, I'd say Therese Raquin or The Drinking Den (L'assomoir) are worth picking up and giving a try if you haven't already; I really enjoyed them, despite the somewhat depressing themes. For some reason books charting marital breakdown, alcoholism, lust, adultery and general Par ... Possibly the first noir is Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. James Cain uses some of the book's elements in his work -- I'm not saying he ripped off Zola, rather that these elements are bedrock of the genre. Therese Raquin has been made into several movies (a new one with Glenn Close has ... ... qualify as "high school", as the swedish system is quite different. But during roughly the same period I had to read Therese Raquin by Emile Zola, Voltaires Candide and All quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque, and, of course Hamlet. Also we had to read a ...
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