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Madeleine Férat
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A love that cannot outrun the past.
Madeleine has loved before-completely, ruinously-and believes that history is behind her. When she marries Guillaume, a gentle and devoted young man with no family and no expectations, she is certain she can build something new on the ashes of what came before.
But Émile Zola does not deal in clean beginnings. As the newlyweds settle into a quiet house in the countryside, the past begins to surface in ways neither of them can control-in a face glimpsed on a stranger, in a name spoken by accident, in the growing, suffocating sense that some things, once lived, cannot be unlived. What began as a story of second chances becomes a study in obsession, inheritance, and the particular cruelty of a fate that punishes honesty as harshly as deceit.
Written in 1868, on the threshold of the novels that would make him the great chronicler of Second Empire France, Madeleine Férat is Zola at his rawest and most controlled-a hothouse of jealousy, guilt, and dread that still unsettles more than 150 years later. This new translation renders its psychological tension in vivid, contemporary English while preserving every shadow of the original.
For readers of Zola, Thérèse Raquin, and any story where the past refuses to stay buried.
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