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Au Bonheur Des Dames Paperback - 2002
by Zola, Émile
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
Through 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.
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Details
- Title Au Bonheur Des Dames
- Author Zola, Émile
- Binding Paperback
- Edition International Ed
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 464
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Group, Unknown
- Date 2002
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0140447830I3N00
- ISBN 9780140447835
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
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