TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - La Curée AV - PQ PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17553 ER -