La Curée by Émile Zola
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"La Curée" by Émile Zola is a novel serialized from 1871 to 1872 and published in 1872. The second installment in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series, it plunges into the ruthless world of property speculation during Baron Haussmann's transformation of Paris. Aristide Saccard, a cunning social climber, exploits insider information to amass a fortune. His young wife Renée and his son Maxime become entangled in a scandalous affair, while Saccard manipulates them both
for financial gain. A scathing portrait of Second Empire excess and moral decay unfolds. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | La Curée |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cur%C3%A9e |
| Credits | Produced by www.ebooksgratuits.com and Chuck Greif |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17553 |
| Release Date | Jan 19, 2006 |
| Last Update | Aug 2, 2011 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 578 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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