La Bête humaine

La Bête humaine (English: The Beast Within or The Beast in Man) is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola. The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. The seventeenth book in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, it is based on the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller.

This article is about the novel. For the film, see La Bête Humaine (film).
La Bête humaine
Lithograph advertisement for La Bête humaine, 1889
AuthorÉmile Zola
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
SeriesLes Rougon-Macquart
GenrePsychological thriller
Set inFrance
Published
  • 1890 (Bibliothèque-Charpentier, French)
  • 1968 (Signet Classic, English)
Media typePrint (Serial, Hardcover, Paperback)
Preceded byL'Œuvre 
Followed byGerminal 
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