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His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140447830
ISBN-139780140447835
eBay Product ID (ePID)2190237
Product Key Features
Book TitleAu Bonheur Des Dames
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicClassics, Literary, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorEmile Zola
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-278397
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThrough 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.