Therese Raquin R. N. Morris Rosa walked to the pier

Rosa walked to the pier in the dead of night

His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia

intrigue and betrayal

nail-biting read

Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed

Therese Raquin R. N. Morris Rosa walked to the pierThr? se Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth century Paris. Zola's dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere `human beasts' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character drawing which seemed to undermine not only the moral values of a deeply