For a Night of Love
| By: | Émile Zola; A. N. Wilson |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9781843910107 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781780940915 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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In these three short stories, Émile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment—romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pregnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor's interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; and churchgoing women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest. These are beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent.