The disciple
Bourget, Paul, 1852-1935
The disciple - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Disciple Release date is 2024-05-16
Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.) Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
"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.)
French fiction -- Translations into English
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The disciple - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Disciple Release date is 2024-05-16
Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.) Laura Natal Rodrigues (Images generously made available by Hathi Trust Digital Library.)
"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.)
French fiction -- Translations into English
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