The kill =
Subtitle: La curée
By: Émile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson.
Contributors: Nelson, Brian, 1946-; Zola, Emile, 1840-1902.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Kill (La Curee) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renee, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxii]-xxxv).
Volume 2 in the cycle: Les Rougon-Macquart.