Therese Raquin

'Thérèse Raquin' is a naturalistic novel, first published in 1867. The action revolves around Thérèse Raquin, a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin, Camille, who is sickly and egocentric. So Thérèse, when the opportunity arises, enters into a turbulent and sordidly passionate affair with one of Camille's friends, Laurent...
This work forestalls 'Les Rougon-Macquarts' and carries the main themes of Zola's naturalistic concepts. Read the novel, written by the master of naturalistic genre, to know, what does wait the protagonists and how will the story end.