Nachdruck des Originals aus dem Hartleben Verlag mit 35 Illustrationen.
Josef V. Sterzinger Books
The Sin of Abbé Mouret is the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It follows Serge Mouret, a young priest, aspiring to perfect purity and sanctity. An illness leaves him with amnesia, and no longer knowing he is a priest, he falls in love with his nurse. Together they roam an Eden-like garden called the 'Paradou'.
The book can be understood as a „continuation“ of Edgar Allan Poe's novel „The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket“ and takes place one year after its publication respectively eleven years after the catastrophe in Antarctica. The wealthy American Joerling travels on Captain Len Guy's ship towards Tristan da Cunha. On their way there, they find the body of a sailor on a drifting iceberg, together with notes pointing to survivors in the Antarctic. They set out on an adventurous and dangerous quest, as one of the survivors is Len Guy's brother...
Historicko-dobrodružný román s ľúbostným motívom. Odohráva sa na dvore francúzskeho kráľa Henricha III., slabocha zmietaného neresťami a strachom pred božím trestom. Hlavnou postavou je Diana z Méridoru, vydatá za grófa Monsoreau. Je to nešťastná žena so smutným osudom, podmanila si srdcia dvoch mužov, obaja sú však dosť mocní, aby ničivo zasiahli do jej života....
