{"product_id":"the-beast-within-by-emile-zola-9780140449631","title":"The Beast Within","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew translation by Roger Whitehouse for this tale of murder, passion, and possession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Bête humaine\u003c\/em\u003e (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level, a tale of murder, passion, and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eZola considered this his 'most finely worked' novel, and in it, he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Second Empire in France, where society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new locomotives and railways it was building. While expressing the hope that human nature evolves through education and gradually frees itself of the burden of inherited evil, he is constantly reminding us that under the veneer of technological progress, there remains, always, the beast within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46495708872940,"sku":"9780140449631","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27384083482237.jpg?v=1748482918","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-beast-within-by-emile-zola-9780140449631","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}