Therese Raquin by Emile Zola Fiction Classics

<p><strong>Raised alongside her sickly cousin Therese lives the quietest of lives.</strong> Yet something impetuous and wild stirs within her -- as she learns of herself during moments of escape into the countryside.</p><p>But now the family is in Paris taking over a mercer's shop in the dingy Arcade of the Pont Neuf. To appease the aunt who has cared for her she marries her pale nerve-wracked cousin. Then a schoolmate of her husband's appears -- almost his complete opposite with full voice jovial laughter -- and a strapping build that givers her nervous pangs to contemplate . . .</p><p>And a new Therese one her aunt or husband has never known threatens to break free of the restraints that have bound her all these years!</p>