{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"The Kill","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/the-kill","description":"The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola\u0026#39;s great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola\u0026#39;s narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable \u0026#39;appetites\u0026#39; 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. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard\u0026#39;s son Maxime.","author_name":"Émile Zola","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/emile-zola","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30500744/0fcf3c86-e229-4471-8c44-764fe8db03f2.jpg","thumbnail_width":362,"thumbnail_height":550}