Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Théophile Steinlen. A couple leave Paris for the country and raise a large family while their childless friends decay in the city - Zola's argument for the birth rate, made at enormous length and with total conviction. The first of his Four Gospels. This edition is bound with 59 plates of painting from 1853–1910, among them Jean Béraud, Théophile Steinlen and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and is translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.