The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola
The Ladies' Paradise

Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

Les Rougon-Macquart #11

Émile Zola

438 pages first pub 1883 (view editions)

fiction classics literary informative slow-paced
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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 emblemati...

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