The Bright Side of Life

ISBN: 9780198753612 出版年：2018 页码：369 Zola, Emile Oxford University Press

When Pauline Quenu is taken to the seaside to live with her relatives, her love of life contrasts with the pessimism which infects the family. This is the twelfth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, remarkable for it's depictions of intense emotions and physical and mental suffering.