TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile AU - Vizetelly,Edward TI - The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) AV - PQ PY - 2018/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_B%C3%AAte_humaine; Release date is 2018-04-23; Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Monomaniac (La bête humaine)" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1890. This psychological thriller follows Jacques Lantier, a railway engine driver plagued by hereditary madness that transforms his desires into violent urges against women. Set among railway workers operating the Paris-Le Havre line in the late 1860s, the story weaves together murder, obsession, and betrayal. When Lantier witnesses a killing on a passing train, he becomes entangled with the perpetrators—leading to a passionate affair and a web of deadly consequences that culminate in tragedy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57038 ER -