Details

Subject(s)

• Banks and banking—France—History—19th—Fiction [Browse]
• Banks and banking—France—History—19th century—Fiction [Browse]

Translator

• Minogue, Valerie [Browse]

Series

Oxford world's classics [More in this series]

Summary note

Aristide Rougon, known as Saccard, is a failed property speculator determined to make his way once more in Paris. Unscrupulous, seductive, and with unbounded ambition, he schemes and manipulates his way to power. Financial undertakings in the Middle East lead to the establishment of a powerful new bank and speculation on the stock market; Saccard meanwhile conducts his love life as energetically as he does his business, and his empire is seemingly unstoppable. Saccard, last encountered in The Kill (La Curee) in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, is a complex figure whose story intricately intertwines the worlds of politics, finance, and the press. The repercussions of his dealings on all levels of society resonate disturbingly with the financial scandals of more recent times. This is the first new translation for more than a hundred years, and the first unabridged translation in English. The edition includes a wide-ranging introduction and useful historical notes.

Notes

• First published as a book, in French, in 1891. It is the 18th published book in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series.
• Translated from the French.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Money.

ISBN

• 9780199608379 (pbk.)
• 0199608377 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013942702

OCLC

868077557

RCP

H - S

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