About “La curée”
La Curée is the second novel in Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, published in 1872. It explores the theme of property speculation and the lives of the newly wealthy during the Second French Empire. The story is set against the background of Baron Haussmann's urban redevelopment of Paris in the 1850s and 1860s. Zola focuses on the social and economic changes of the time, highlighting the ambitions and moral compromises of the rising bourgeois class. The novel is part of a larger series that examines the lives of a family across multiple generations. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1871
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