Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Disciple

Release date is 2024-05-16

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"The Disciple" by Paul Bourget is a novel published in 1889. A young philosophy student applies his mentor's deterministic theories as a cold experiment on a nobleman's daughter, with tragic consequences. Inspired by a real murder case, this psychological thriller questions whether modern intellectuals bear responsibility when their ideas influence impressionable minds. The work marked Bourget's shift toward moral and Catholic themes, transforming a sensational crime story into a profound examination of science, faith, and the dangerous allure of treating human hearts as laboratory subjects. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1901