Welcome to One Bright Book! Join our hosts Rebecca, Frances and Dorian as they discuss LA BÊTE HUMAINE by Émile Zola and chat about their current reading.

For our next episode, we will discuss THE WEDDING by Dorothy West. We would love to have you read along with us, and join us for our conversation coming to you in late June.

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Books mentioned:

• La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola, translated with introduction and notes by Roger Pearson
• L’Assommoir by Émile Zola, translated by Brian Nelson and edited by Robert Lethbridge
• Germinal by Émile Zola, translated by Peter Collier and With an Introduction by Robert Lethbridge
• The Masterpiece by Émile Zola, translated by Thomas Walton and translation revised and introduced by Roger Pearson
• Nana by Émile Zola, translated by Helen Constantine and Edited by Brian Nelson
• Pot Luck by Émile Zola, Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Brian Nelson
• Doctor Pascal by Émile Zola, translated by Julie Rose, edited by Brian Nelson
• The Octopus by Frank Norris
• Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Wool, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker
• Henry, Henry by Allen Bratton
• The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• The Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard
• It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Anne de Marcken
• The Wedding by Dorothy West

You might also be interested in:

• “Is It Even Good? Brandon Taylor Reads Zola” - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/brandon-taylor/is-it-even-good
• Further pursuing your knowledge of literary zombie novels

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