For a Night of Love Author:Emile Zola In these three short stories, Emile Zola presents characters in search of fulfillment—romantic, religious, and financial. Read together, they give us an extraordinary depiction of sexual mores. When the apparently angelic Thérèse commits murder, she offers sexual favors to a petty clerk if he will dispose of the body; the pr... more »egnant Flavie manipulates a neighbor’s interest in her dowry to arrange a shotgun wedding; church–going women find their hunger for Christianity unsatisfied by a vapid priest—beautiful and poignant stories unified by the powerful themes of deception and discontent. With a Foreword by A.N. Wilson.« less