The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

Les Rougon-Macquart #11

Émile Zola with Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Translator)

438 pages first pub 1883 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary informative slow-paced
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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 cons...

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