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The Fat and the Thin by Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics
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ISBN13: 9781603127097
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Fat and the Thin is the third novel of Zola's twenty volume Rougon-Macquart series.
The Fat and the Thin is a study of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and increasingly selfish. Her brother-in-law Florent has escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lives for a short time in her house, but she becomes tired of his presence and ultimately denounces him to the police.
As a critic put it: It also embraces a powerful allegory, the prose song of the eternal battle between the lean of this world and the fat - a battle in which, as the author shows, the latter always come off successful.
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