Money. Zola E.

“Money”-a novel related to the famous cycle “Rugon-Makkara” was published in 1891. The famous author of this fascinating work - the founder of the naturalistic current in the literature, Emil Zola created such an impressive, thorough and plausible picture of the seething financial life of the period of the second empire that the novel could become an excellent practical manual for any beginner businessman. “The protagonist of the novel is speculation,” Poet Emil Verkharn wrote wittily Zola's contemporaries. Indeed, the desperate speculations of land property and securities, exchange excitement, the collapse of the financial pyramid directs and determine the fate of the heroes of the novel. And now, more than a century later, this story amazes the reader with modernity, forcing the reader once again to make sure: nothing is new in this world. And certainly not the new ones in it is an unlimited passion for enrichment and risky financial fraud.