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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Au Bonheur des Dames Emile Zola publié en 1883, prépublié dès décembre 1882 dans Gil Blas, le onzième volume de la suite romanesque les Rougon-Macquart. À travers une histoire sentimentale, le roman entraîne le lecteur dans le monde des grands magasins, l'une des innovations du Second Empire (1852-1870) ...Show more
Germinal by Emile Zola ; Robert (INT) Peter (TRN); Lethbridge Emile; Collier Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Germinal by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, "Germinal" is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelli ...Show more
Nana by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Rich men, Comtes and Marquises fall at her feet, great ladies try to emula ...Show more
The Kill by Emile Zola
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Category: Travel | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola; Henry Vizetelly (Translator)
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Category: Classics/Literature
Émile Zola was one of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement. In 1871 Zola began to write his most notable series of novels, the "Rougon-Macquart Novels", that relate the history of a fictional family under the Secon ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development 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 consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes ...Show more
The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature
Encapsulating, with luxurious detail, the phenomenon of consumer societyA obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratificationA The Ladies'Paradise depicts the growth of capitalism through the workings of a new economic entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of the young De ...Show more
Therese Raquin (Popular Penguin) by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend Laurent, but their animal passion for ea ...Show more
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