Lourdes by Emile Zola Fiction Classics Literary

<p><strong>One of Zola's Three Cities Trilogy Lourdes is a story surrounding the famous Catholic healing shrine in Southern France.</strong> Lourdes in addition to telling the tales of many of the sick and dying pilgrims to the famous healing shrine is also the story of doomed lovers Pierre a priest who questions his faith and his frail sickly lover Marie de Geursaint who in finding a cure perhaps in the waters of Lourdes becomes the book's heroine. Although Marie's triumphant cure is described glowingly Pierre and the reader learn -- it is Marie who cured herself not the holy waters of Lourdes -- and it is in that which lies Zola's message.</p>