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Kill

"Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for more than a century, The Kill is a riveting story of a family, a city, and a civilization driven by desire, ambition, and greed. The ruthlessness of financier Aristide Saccard and the forbidden affair between his son, Maxime, and his second wife, Renee, explode against the kaleidoscopic background of Paris during that city's tumultuous emergence as a modern metropolis, with consequences that leave both a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond salvation."--Back cover.

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  • ""Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for more than a century, The Kill is a riveting story of a family, a city, and a civilization driven by desire, ambition, and greed. The ruthlessness of financier Aristide Saccard and the forbidden affair between his son, Maxime, and his second wife, Renee, explode against the kaleidoscopic background of Paris during that city's tumultuous emergence as a modern metropolis, with consequences that leave both a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond salvation."--Back cover."@en
  • "Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in teh Second Empire, his younger brother Aristide decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright."
  • "The Kill (La Cur--eacute--;e) 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. - ;'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking o."@en
  • "The incestuous affair of Renee Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renee's financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris swiftly becoming a modern metropolis and "the capital of the nineteenth century." In the end, setting and story merge in actions that leave a woman's spirit and a city's soul ravaged beyond repair."
  • "Overview: 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."

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  • "Livres électroniques"
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  • "Kill"@en
  • "The kill"
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  • "The Kill ["La Curée", translated from the French by A. Teixeira de Mattos]"
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  • "The Kill"
  • "The Kill"@en
  • "The kill = La curée"
  • "The kill La curée"
  • "The kill : La curée"

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