The kill

Émile Zola

earliest edition we have, 1982 Modern Library, 2004 hardcover 336 pages

Oxford world's classics

"Here is a true publishing event - the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and untranslated for a century, Emile Zola's The Kill (La Curee) emerges as a classic of naturalism. Second in the author's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart saga, it is a story of family transgression, heedless desire, and societal greed." "The...

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Arthur Goldhammer 1 printing we hold · 2005 · Modern Library

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Editions we hold

The kill = edition · 2008 · Oxford University Press · 275 pages · 9780199536924
The Kill paperback · 2005 · Modern Library · 336 pages · 9780812966374
The Kill hardcover · 2004 · Modern Library · 336 pages · 9780679642749
The kill = edition · 2004 · Oxford University Press · 275 pages
The kill paperback · 1985 · Panther · 271 pages
Kill hardcover · 1982 · Wm Collins & Sons & Co · 9789992254547

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