Au Bonheur des Dames
by
Emile Zola
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140447830
ISBN-13
9780140447835
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 25th, 2001
Print length
464 Pages
Weight
322 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 13.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)Fiction in translation
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The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace.
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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