Complete and unabridged, with 28 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet and Gustave Caillebotte. Speculation in the rebuilding of Paris under Haussmann, and a family that gets rich pulling down streets - with a stepmother and stepson affair at the center of it. The second of the Rougon-Macquart and the one where Zola set out what the empire was actually for. This edition adds 28 plates of painting, among them Béraud, Renoir, Daumier and Toulouse-Lautrec, and 11 illustrations restored and coloured, in the Vizetelly translation.