The Ladies' Paradise

(Paperback)

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Encapsulating in luxurious detail the phenomenon of consumer society - obsessed with image, fashion and instant gratification - Ladies Delight vividly depicts the workings of a new commercial entity, the department store. The novel centres around the story of Denise, a young shopgirl from the provinces, and Octave Mouret, the dashing young director of a shopping emporium, who find themselves torn between the conflicting forces of love, loyalty and ambition. Set in the heart of the city, Zolas novel the eleventh in his Rougon-Macquart series evokes the giddy pace of Pariss transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place during the second half of the nineteenth century.

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Nothing gets a crowd going like sex and shopping. mile Zola was one of the first to describe this new consumerist link... * The Times *

Author Bio

Emile Zola (1840-1902) is the foremost representative of the Naturalist school, and is best remembered for Therese Raquin and his twenty-novel cycle, The Rougon Macquarts.