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Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight) by Emile Zola
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Category: Fiction | 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
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Category: Classics | 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: Fiction | 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 Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola
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Category: Classics | 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
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