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The Ladies' Paradise by Emile Zola, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Paperback, 2011)

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The Ladies Paradise. Title: The Ladies Paradise. Condition: Very Good. Weight: 23 Gms. Publish Date: 01/01/2011.

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One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was Emile Zola (1840-1902). In 1871 Zola began to his most notable series of novels, the Rougon-Macquart Novels, that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However, unlike Honore de Balzac, whose works examined a wider scope of society, Zola focused on the evolution of one, single family. The Ladies' Paradise is the eleventh novel in this series, and begins exactly where Pot-Bouille left off. Octave Mouret has married and now owns a department store where twenty year old Denise Baudu, who has come to Paris with her brothers, takes a job as a saleswoman. The novel reflects symbolically on capitalism, the modern city, changes in consumer culture, the bourgeois family and sexual attitudes.