Description: Further DetailsTitle: The KillCondition: NewISBN-10: 0199536929EAN: 9780199536924ISBN: 9780199536924Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/10/2008Description: 'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.'The Kill (La Curée) 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 Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 195mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 15mmGenre: FictionBook Series: Oxford World's ClassicsTopic: Classic Fiction, Literary CriticismTranslator: Brian NelsonContributor: Brian Nelson (Translated by)Author: Émile ZolaItem Weight: 222gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Kill
Title: The Kill
ISBN-10: 0199536929
EAN: 9780199536924
ISBN: 9780199536924
Release Date: 07/10/2008
Release Year: 2008
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Translator: Brian Nelson
Contributor: Brian Nelson (Translated by)
Book Title: Kill
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: European / French, Historical
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Fiction
Item Weight: 7.8 Oz
Author: Brian Nelson, Émile Zola
Item Length: 7.7 in
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
