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The kill : La curee / Emile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Curée. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Edition:
- [New edition] / translated with an introduction and notes by Brian Nelson.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'The Kill' is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of 20 novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. The novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Translator's Note; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Émile Zola; Map: The Paris of The Kill; THE KILL; Explanatory Notes;
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and publisher information.
- Volume 2 in the cycle: Les Rougon-Macquart.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-192083-5
- 1-281-34656-X
- 9786611346560
- 0-19-151695-3
- OCLC:
- 476257305
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