Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugène Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour, intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the book.
Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press.
Now bankrupt after some failed gambles, Aristide Saccard, the former kingpin of the Paris Stock Exchange, desperately wants to get back to the top of the financial pile. When his powerful brother, the government minister Eugène Rougon, refuses to help him, he forms a partnership with the engineer Hamelin and founds the Banque Universelle, which speculates on public works in the Middle East. But as his greed and desire to outplay his rivals gets the better of him, the dashing and ruthless Saccard perilously begins to inflate the value of his enterprise using rumour, intrigue, financial manipulation and all the other tricks in the book.
Inspired by real events and meticulously researched by Zola, Money is, in the wake of recent financial scandals, an all-too-topical exploration of the dynamics of greed, the excesses of capitalism and its dangerous relationship with politics and the press.
Money
432
Money
432Paperback(Translatio)
Related collections and offers
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199608379 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Publication date: | 03/01/2014 |
| Series: | Oxford Worlds Classics Series |
| Edition description: | Translatio |
| Pages: | 432 |
| Sales rank: | 79,711 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Customer Reviews
Explore More Items
Set against the backdrop of the Home Rule Crisis of 1912, Exiles is James Joyce's only surviving play. It
From Longman's Cultural Edition series, Rudyard Kipling's Kim, edited by Paula M. Krebs and Tricia Lootens, sets Kipling's most important novel in both its imperial and its literary contexts.
Ever
Paradox exists in this paradise, but nowhere more forcefully
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1905 book edition of the novel, complete with A. B. Wenzell's eight original illustrations. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by Elizabeth Ammons. -
Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was originally published in 1920. Set in gaslit 1870s New York, where society people "dread scandal more than disease," Newland Archer is deeply