A bank is built on a swindle and brings down everyone who trusted it, in the Paris bourse of the 1860s. Zola read the records of the Union Générale collapse and the description of a market panic has not been bettered. This edition binds fifty plates of painting with the text, among them Jean Béraud, Gustave Brion, Alfred Dehodencq and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and includes one restored, coloured illustration. Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.
