Published by Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1989
ISBN 10: 0862996988 ISBN 13: 9780862996987
Seller: Ammareal, Morangis, France
Softcover. Condition: Bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Quelques passages surlignés ou soulignés. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de ce livre à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Some highlighted or underlined passages. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book's net price to charity organizations.
Published by Barnes & Noble, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0760777675 ISBN 13: 9780760777671
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. May, Stacey - Cover Design (illustrator). First Printing. 458 Pages Plus Five-Page listing Fiction and Literature in the The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading. A clean book with no defects and probably never read. Interior text pages are flawless. This book catapults the reader into the present-day world of consumer culture and marketing. It seems as if the store owners of today's Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus all read The Ladies' Paradise and made it their bible for creating desire for consumer goods. Emile Zola documents how the first department stores in nineteenth-century Paris made shopping into a religion, while he simultaneously woos readers with his gripping love story between the enterprising store owner Octave Mourer and the rags-to-riches heroine Denise Baudu. Emile Zola, born in Paris in 1840, was raised in Aix en Provence in conditions of extreme poverty following the death of his hither in 1847. In 1865, he decided to support himself by writing alone. The Ladies' Paradise is the eleventh novel in a series of twenty novels under the generic title The Rougon-Macquarts: the Natural and Social History of a Family Under the Second Empire. In this series, published between 1871 and 1893, Zola scientifically documents the effects of heredity and environment on the Rougon-Marquart family. Contemporary interest in cultural studies and consumer culture has sparked a renewed interest in Zola's work and in particular The Ladies' Paradise. Our current endless appetite for reality television shows parallels Zola's efforts in the latter part of nineteenth century to document reality and to make the everyday world an apt subject for the novel. While in The Ladies' Paradise Zola documents social realism, he also creates a prose poem to the modernist city in all of its bustle and splendor. And at the center of this vast city is the department store, which encapsulates the wonders and desires afforded by commerce.
Published by Chatto & Windus
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 1918
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1893 edition - Portions of spine cover missing. First inner page removed. Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is discoloured, scuffed and chipped. There is creasing/wear to the cover.
Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO40239956: Non daté. In-16. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 336 pages. Dessin en noir et blanc en frontispice. Dessins ornementaux noirs en page de titre. Text in English. Titre et motifs doré sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons de bibliothèque en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. slipcase shows signs of wear xxvi, [1], 409 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40240190: 1907. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 222 pages. 1er plat illustré (portrait). Texte sur 2 colonnes en anglais. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40240191: 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 252 pages. 1er plat illustré. Texte sur 2 colonnes en anglais. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40240192: 1908. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Manque en coiffe de pied, Intérieur acceptable. 222 pages. 1er plat illustré (portrait). Texte sur 2 colonnes en anglais. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.
Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO40240193: 1910. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 140 pages. 1er plat illustré. Texte sur 2 colonnes en anglais. Etiquette de code sur le 1er plat. Tampons de bibliothèque sur le 1er plat et en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.