I enjoyed 'Germinal' hugely and 'La Terre' quite a lot, but this, at best was like an early Shakespeare if you had started with say 'King Lear' and then maybe 'The Tempest'.
A very wooden narrative and a pretty one line plot – woman and lover murder husband and cannot live with their remorse, and eventually commit joint suicide. It took a long time to get there. In the complete works the kindle ‘progress’ line moved from five to six as I waded through this with no idea where the end was.
It was a relief to get there.
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