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La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine

by Émile Zola

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About La Bête Humaine

Émile Zola's 1890 novel — the seventeenth in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, following Jacques Lantier, a locomotive driver haunted by a hereditary impulse to murder. Set in the world of the French railway, one of Zola's most gripping crime novels and his most sustained study of hereditary violence.

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