| Description |
xii, 596 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Literary classics series |
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Literary classics (Amherst, N.Y.)
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| Note |
Originally published: New York: John Lane, 1903. |
| Summary |
"In a quiet rural village in late-nineteenth-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in outrage: Who could have committed this horrible crime? Rumors immediately begin to fly and suspicion shifts from one person to another as conjecture begins to feed on itself." |
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"At first a vagrant is suspected; he could have come in through the open window while passing through the town at night. But in a matter of days another story begins to circulate: the culprit must be Simon, the Jewish schoolmaster, and the murdered boy's uncle and guardian. Did he not resent the fact that the boy was a product of a mixed marriage? As a Jew in the midst of a predominately Christian community, Simon is vulnerable."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Literatura francesa -- Siglo XIX.
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Novela francesa -- Siglo XIX.
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| Added Author |
Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922.
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| Added Title |
Vérité. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. Vérité. English. Truth. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001 (OCoLC)622723950 |
| ISBN |
1573929387 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781573929387 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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