Money - zola

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 Eastlead 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.

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• Authors: Emile, Valerie Minogue, ^D'Emile Zola, Emile Zola, Émile Zola
• Assisted by: Valerie Minogue (Translation), Valerie (Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales) Minogue (Translation), Minogue Valerie (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.03.2014
• EAN: 9780199608379
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960837-9
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 22 mm
• Series: World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, Classic fiction: general and literary