Editing La Curée (section)

== English translations ==
===Expurgated===
The novel was first translated (translator unknown) very poorly and with many [[bowdlerizations]] and reissued by [[Henry Vizetelly]] in the 1880s and 1890s under the title ''The Rush for the Spoil'', with an introduction by [[George Moore (novelist)|George Moore]].

===Unexpurgated===
An unexpurgated translation by the poet and critic [[Alexander Texeira de Mattos]] was published in a limited edition in 1895 under the French title, with an English equivalent (''The Hounds' Fee'') in parentheses. This translation, retitled ''The Kill'' upon its 1954 reprinting, was the standard English text of the novel for over a century. The critic Graham King remarked that "its remarkably timeless tone no doubt acts as a deterrent to a more modern competitor."<ref name=Merkle>{{cite journal|last=Merkle|first=Denise|title=The Lutetian Society|journal=[[TTR: traduction, terminologie, rédaction]] |year=2003|volume=16|issue=2|pages=73–101|doi=10.7202/010716ar|url=http://www.erudit.org/revue/TTR/2003/v16/n2/010716ar.html|doi-access=}}</ref>

In 2004, two new English translations by [[Arthur Goldhammer]] ([[Modern Library]]) and [[Brian Nelson (critic)|Brian Nelson]] ([[Oxford World's Classics]]) were published to acclaim.

#[[Alexander Texeira de Mattos]] (1895)
#[[Arthur Goldhammer]] ([[Modern Library]]) (2004)
#[[Brian Nelson (critic)|Brian Nelson]] ([[Oxford World's Classics]]) (2004)