TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - La Bête humaine AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine; Release date is 2004-02-01; This eBook was produced by Carlo Traverso; Original publication data not identified N2 - "La Bête humaine" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1890, the seventeenth volume in the Rougon-Macquart series. Set along the Paris-Le Havre railway line, it follows Jacques Lantier, a train engineer who suffers from hereditary murderous impulses triggered by sexual desire. When a railway executive is brutally murdered, Jacques becomes entangled with Séverine Roubaud and her husband in a dark web of jealousy, violence, and deadly secrets. This thriller shocked Zola's contemporaries with its catalog of crimes and catastrophes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5154 ER -