The Ladies' Paradise: A Realistic Novel (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Émile Zola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0243898770 ISBN 13: 9780243898770

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Ladies' Paradise: A Realistic Novel

Oh! Look there, Jean, said she; and they stood still, nestling close to one another, all dressed in black, wearing the old mourning bought at their father's death. She, rather puny for her twenty years, was carrying a small parcel; on the other side. Her little brother, five years old, was clinging to her arm; while behind her, the big brother, a strapping youth of sixteen, was standing empty-handed.

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About the Author:

Émile François Zola (1840-1902) was a journalist, a novelist, a playwright, and a political activist. He was one of the most influential French novelists of the 19th century and the founder of the literary and theatrical school of naturalism. Zola was a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Émile Zola’s works include novels, dramas, poetry, and criticism, among which is his famous Rougon-Macquart (1871-1893), a cycle of twenty novels which depict various aspects of life and society, such as "L’Assommoir" (1877), the seventh novel of the series, about the suffering of the Parisian working-class; "Nana" (1880), the ninth installment, which deals with prostitution; "Pot-Bouille" (1882), the tenth novel, and Zola’s most sarcastic satire, which describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris; and "Germinal" (1885), the thirteenth novel in the series, which depicts the mining industry and is considered by some as one of his masterpieces. "The Ladies Paradise," originally "Au Bonheur des Dames," one of his most relevant works, was the eleventh novel of the cycle. Zola’s open letter to French president Félix Faure, under the headline J’Accuse...!, published on the front page of the newspaper L’Aurore on January 13, 1898, charging various French officials with a “terrible miscarriage of justice,” reopened the case of the Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been sentenced to Devil’s Island. For that, Zola was himself sentenced to a year in prison but fled to England, returning one year later after Dreyfus’ name had been cleared. Dreyfus was eventually reinstated as an officer and publicly decorated with the Legion of Honor.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0243898770
• ISBN 13: 9780243898770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342