Au Bonheur Des Dames by Zola, ?mile

Au Bonheur Des Dames (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140447835)

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Au Bonheur Des Dames by Zola, ?mile

Au Bonheur Des Dames

$18.00
Au Bonheur Des Dames by Zola, ?mile

Au Bonheur Des Dames

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Through charm, drive, and diligent effort Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola captures in lavish detail the greedy customers and gossiping staff, and the obsession with image, fashion, and gratification that was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century French consumer society. Of all Zola's novels, this may be the one with the most relevance for our own time.

Author: ?mile Zola
ISBN-10: 0140447830
ISBN-13: 9780140447835
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Language: English
Published: 02/26/2002
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By ?mile Zola
By ?mile Zola
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?mile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.

Robin Buss is a writer and translator who works for theIndependent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He studied at the University of Paris, where he took a degree and a doctorate in French literature. He is part-author of the article 'French Literature' in Encyclopaedia Britannica and has published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He has also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics.

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