The Ladies' Paradise: A Realistic Novel
by Émile Zola
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About This Book
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames)recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture, and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of his greatest works.
Chapters (20)
- THE LADIES' PARADISE
- (The Sequel To “Piping Hot!”) A Realistic Novel
- Translated without Abridgment from the 80th French Edition London: Vizetelly And Company
- 1886.
- THE LADIES' PARADISE
- CHAPTER I.
- CHAPTER II.
- CHAPTER III.
- CHAPTER IV.
- CHAPTER V.
- CHAPTER VI.
- CHAPTER VII.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- CHAPTER IX.
- CHAPTER X.
- CHAPTER XI.
- CHAPTER XII.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- THE END.
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