- Published: 3 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448130870
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Thérèse Raquin
- Published: 3 October 2013
- ISBN: 9781448130870
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Adam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text
Anthony Cummins, Daily Telegraph
Anyone who thinks the British contingent brought lurid literature effing and blinding its way to life in the 1990s should be force-fed Emile Zola's 1867 novel Thérèse Raquin, which, in Adam Thorpe's stark new translation, is revealed in all its queasy glory as a shockingly effective literary mash-up of pulp fiction, melodrama and grimly unflinching social realism
Tina Jackson, Metro
The translator of this new edition in English, Adam Thorpe...brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task... This handsome Vintage Classics edition contains some useful editorial matter, but not Zola’s own preface to the second edition. In that sense, then, it comes close to returning us to the baldness (and boldness) of the original Naturalist document
Times Literary Supplement
[Adam Thorpe] brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task, which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving immediacy which the young Zola's novel would have given its readers in 1867
Nicholas White, Times Literary Supplement
A thrilling read
Joseph Fiennes, Express
A very dark book but a magnificent read
Kirsty Wark
By merging elements of the gothic and tragic with a study of petit-bourgeois banality, Zola created a work of enduring fascination
Observer
I love this because it's the story of how you can't escape the inevitabilities of love and it's just a fantastic piece of writing
Sue Perkins, Express
It was attacked by critics of the day as stinking filth and a foul sewer. Little wonder, then, that it became an instant bestseller and I'll admit I was completely riveted by its melodramatics from start to finish
Daily Mail
This story seeps into your insides
Kate Winslet