Madeleine Ferat
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First English Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some edge chipping and minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed/tanning, some foxing on block. Protective sleeve present. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact but aged. Notes: Dust jacket present but showing significant wear consistent with age; title page clean and legible.
A landmark of nineteenth-century French naturalism, Madeleine Férat presents one of Émile Zola's most psychologically charged and morally complex narratives. The novel chronicles the tragic story of Madeleine, a young woman whose past love affair casts a long and destructive shadow over her subsequent life and marriage, illustrating Zola's deterministic view of human nature shaped by heredity and environment. Written before the celebrated Rougon-Macquart series, the work already argues with conviction that individuals are prisoners of their biological and social inheritances, unable to escape the forces that formed them. Translated into English by Alec Brown, this edition makes Zola's intense, brooding prose accessible to a broader audience, delivering a narrative that is by turns passionate, melancholic, and unflinching in its examination of guilt, desire, and fate.
Author: Emile Zola
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Elek Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: First English Edition
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some edge chipping and minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed/tanning, some foxing on block. Protective sleeve present. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact but aged. Notes: Dust jacket present but showing significant wear consistent with age; title page clean and legible.
A landmark of nineteenth-century French naturalism, Madeleine Férat presents one of Émile Zola's most psychologically charged and morally complex narratives. The novel chronicles the tragic story of Madeleine, a young woman whose past love affair casts a long and destructive shadow over her subsequent life and marriage, illustrating Zola's deterministic view of human nature shaped by heredity and environment. Written before the celebrated Rougon-Macquart series, the work already argues with conviction that individuals are prisoners of their biological and social inheritances, unable to escape the forces that formed them. Translated into English by Alec Brown, this edition makes Zola's intense, brooding prose accessible to a broader audience, delivering a narrative that is by turns passionate, melancholic, and unflinching in its examination of guilt, desire, and fate.