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A Love Story

A Love Story

Zola, Emile
Nelson, Brian
Constantine, Helen

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic Fiction

Publisher Price: $12.95

ISBN10: 0198728646
ISBN13: 9780198728641
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 26 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Helene Grandjean, an attractive young widow, lives a secluded life in Paris with her only child, Jeanne. Jeanne is a delicate and nervous girl who jealously guards her mother's affections. When Jeanne falls ill, she is attended by Dr Deberle, whose growing admiration for Helene gradually turns into mutual passion. Deberle's wife Juliette, meanwhile, flirts with a shallow admirer, and Helene, intent on preventing her adultery, precipitates a crisis whose consequences are far-reaching. Jeanne realizes she has a rival for Helene's devotion in the doctor, and begins to exercise a tyrannous hold over her mother.

The eighth novel in Zola's celebrated Rougon-Macquart series, A Love Story is an intense psychological and nuanced portrayal of love's different guises. Zola's study extends most notably to the city of Paris itself, whose shifting moods reflect Helene's emotional turmoil in passages of extraordinary lyrical description.

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