La Curée Œuvres complètes - Les Rougon-Macquart, Histoire naturelle et sociale d’une famille sous le Second Empire – II

Slimy "parvenu" Saccard, his trophy wife Renée, and their son Maxime, "petit crevé" and spoilt brat, are the monstrous faces of Napoleon III's Paris. La Curée plays out the twists and turns of their insatiable desires as they descend into the murky depths of incest.