01604cam a22003133u 4500 17553 UtSlPG 20260610133417.0 m cr n 260607r2006||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PQ Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 La Curée Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2006 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cur%C3%A9e Release date is 2006-01-19 Produced by www.ebooksgratuits.com and Chuck Greif "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.) Original publication data not identified Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17553 58939 58939