The Paradise (TV tie-in): A Novel (Les Rougon-macquart)

Zola, Emile

ISBN 10: 0143124706 / ISBN 13: 9780143124702

Published by Penguin Books, 2013

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Synopsis:

A companion edition to the TV series from Masterpiece on PBS

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.

About the Authors: Émile 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 twenty novels which Zola wrote over a period of twenty-two years.

Émile 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 twenty novels which Zola wrote over a period of twenty-two years.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Paradise (TV tie-in): A Novel (Les ...
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good