Ebook: The Kill

Contents; Introduction; Translator's Note; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Émile Zola; Map: The Paris of The Kill; THE KILL; Explanatory Notes.;The Kill (La Cur--eacute--;e) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for. pleasure. - ;'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking o.