Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Santiago Rusiñol i Prats and Gustave Courbet. A peasant family divides its land before the father is dead, in the manner of King Lear, and the results are worse. Zola's harshest book; the reviews called it filth and five of his own disciples signed a public manifesto repudiating him over it. This edition carries the complete five-part novel and a gallery of 52 plates bound with the text, among them paintings by Renoir, Van Gogh and James Webb.