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The Masterpiece (Oxford World's Classics) (Updated Edition) by Emile Zola, Roger Pearson (Editor), Thomas Walton (Translator), Mile Zola Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-19-283963-2 / 0192839632 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283963-3 / 9780192839633 The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-M |