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by Emile Zola (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Modern Library Inc; Reprint edition (4 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812966376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812966374
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 2 cm
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Elegantly translated, with his customary urbane sparkle and precision, by Arthur Goldhammer, this new edition of The Kill is a pleasure to be savored --Ella Taylor, film critic, LA Weekly

Goldhammer's translation of Zola's satiric, transgressive tale--about, among other things, Paris, modernity, incest, and the order of the new--is a work of pure delight. And his introduction to the novel is simply brilliant --Jean Strouse, author of Morgan: An American Financier

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Since 1917 The Modern Library prides itself as The modern Library of the world s Best Books . Its paperback series feature treasured classics, major translations of great works, and rediscoveries of keen literary and historical merit. Featuring introductions by leading writers, stunning translations, scholarly endnotes and reading group guides. Production values emphasize superior quality and readability. Competitive prices, coupled with exciting cover design make these an ideal gift to be cherished by the avid reader. Here is a true publishing event the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction s giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Zola s The Kill (La Curée) emerges as an unheralded classic of naturalism. Second in the author s twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, it is a riveting story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed. The incestuous affair of Renée Saccard and her stepson, Maxime, is set against the frenzied speculation of Renée s financier husband, Aristide, in a Paris 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
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