The Fat and the Thin by Emile Zola
Publisher: eBooks@Adelaide 2011
ISBN/ASIN: 1603123717
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.
Literature & Fiction World Literature Emile Zola

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