L'Argent (French)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781490912202 (1490912207)
Publish date: July 3rd 2013
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 120
Edition language: French
Series: Les Rougon-Macquart (#18)
IntroductionTranslator's NoteSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Émile Zola--MoneyExplanatory Notes
This book written in the 1880's and set in the 1860's is about bank fraud, stock market bubbles, short selling, financial fraud and the terrible toll taken on ordinary people at the expense of the super wealthy, who are barely punished if at all for their crimes. As such it has no relevance at all t...