The flashback complete, the rest of the novel takes place after Saccard has made his fortune, against the backdrop of his luxurious mansion and his profligacy and is concerned with a three-cornered plot of sexual and political intrigue. The novel continues in this vein with the tensions continuing to mount and culminates in a series of bitter observations by Zola on the hypocrisy and immorality of the nouveau riche.
In order to counter this lack, he toured a large number of stately homes around France, taking copious notes on subjects like architecture , ladies' and men's fashions, jewellery, garden design, greenhouse plants a seduction scene takes place in Saccard's hothouse , carriages , mannerisms , servants ' liveries ; these notes volumes of which are preserved were time well spent, as many contemporary observers praised the novel for its realism.
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The novel was first translated translator unknown very poorly and with many bowdlerizations and reissued by Henry Vizetelly in the s and s under the title The Rush for the Spoil , with an introduction by George Moore. An unexpurgated translation by the poet and critic Alexander Texeira de Mattos was published in a limited edition in under the French title, with an English equivalent The Hounds' Fee in parentheses.
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This translation, retitled The Kill upon its reprinting, was the standard English text of the novel for over a century. The critic Graham King remarked that "its remarkably timeless tone no doubt acts as a deterrent to a more modern competitor.
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