The Ladies' Paradise - Softcover

Zola, Emile

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420962892 ISBN 13: 9781420962895

Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the “Rougon-Macquart Novels”, that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However, unlike Honoré de Balzac, whose works examined a wider scope of French society, Zola focused on the evolution of one, single family. “The Ladies’ Paradise” is the eleventh novel in this series, and begins exactly where “Pot-Bouille” left off. Octave Mouret has married and now owns a department store where twenty year old Denise Baudu, who has come to Paris with her brothers, takes a job as a saleswoman. The novel reflects symbolically on capitalism, the modern city, changes in consumer culture, the bourgeois family, and sexual attitudes at the end of the 19th century. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

About this edition

• Publisher: Digireads.com Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1420962892
• ISBN 13: 9781420962895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328