false 816918 <![CDATA[La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778m/816918.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778s/816918.jpg 816918 27 839934 1982 The Kill (Oxford World's Classics) total:154|5:48|4:58|3:40|2:8|1:0| 154 608 225 15 4750 3.92 6102 554 14585380 236606 92968 0812966376 9780812966374 3 <![CDATA[The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) (Modern Library Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251869m/92968.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251869s/92968.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92968.The_Kill 3.56 16 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. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by "infernal intelligence."

In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who's explicit, pitiless, wise, unrelenting and always goes in for the kill.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 1982 4 0 false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 04 20:49:59 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 08:33:30 -0700 2008 Bel Canto, I kept comparing the two throughout, and thinking "this is how Patchett wanted to do it but failed." Zola appears to tell instead of show, but he's actually showing (ok, sometimes he tells, because this is a very well-written moral...more...]]> 58655106 82336 3888856 0199536929 9780199536924 2 <![CDATA[The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) (Oxford World's Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255634317m/3888856.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255634317s/3888856.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3888856.The_Kill 3.80 10 1982 4 0 false Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 10:55:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 06:00:21 -0700 2009
Zola's descriptions of the Paris of Napoleon III are sensual, suffocating and vivid. I felt exhausted, enthralled and suprised - it reads as though
it ...more...]]> 32361767 642872 3888856 0199536929 9780199536924 2 <![CDATA[The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) (Oxford World's Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255634317m/3888856.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255634317s/3888856.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3888856.The_Kill 3.95 154 1982 4 0 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 12:45:22 -0700 2008 Tue Nov 11 13:23:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 52271805 2202063 366623 0192804642 9780192804648 5 <![CDATA[The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) (Oxford World's Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174155475m/366623.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174155475s/366623.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366623.The_Kill 4.07 45 1982 4 0 false Sat Apr 11 00:05:31 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 00:05:44 -0700 2009 6145312 300432 816918 2253003662 9782253003663 4 <![CDATA[La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778m/816918.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778s/816918.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816918.La_Cur_e 3.94 68 1982 0 0 false Thu Sep 13 08:45:48 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 08:51:00 -0700 2007 "Descirption in Zola is never neutral, innocent, or passive, as the label Naturalist night suggest; it is a rhetorical weapon, a bludgeon with which to induce in the reader Zola's religious terror of modernity as an implacable, engulfing flood: images of torrents, in...more...]]> 65852753 2185083 816918 2253003662 9782253003663 4 <![CDATA[La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778m/816918.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178655778s/816918.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816918.La_Cur_e 3.95 154 1982 0 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Aug 02 06:26:25 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 06:27:18 -0700 2009 49759988 2141888 92968 0812966376 9780812966374 3 <![CDATA[The Kill (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2) (Modern Library Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251869m/92968.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171251869s/92968.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92968.The_Kill 3.95 154 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. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by "infernal intelligence."

In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who's explicit, pitiless, wise, unrelenting and always goes in for the kill.


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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. As vividly rendered by Arthur Goldhammer, one of the world's premier translators from the French, The Kill contains all the qualities of the school of fiction marked, as Henry James wrote, by "infernal intelligence."

In this new incarnation, The Kill joins Nana and Germinal on the shelf of Zola classics, works by an immortal author who's explicit, pitiless, wise, unrelenting and always goes in for the kill.


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