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The Ladies' Paradise (The World's Classics)
The Ladies' Paradise - The World's Classics Author:Emile Zola, Brian Nelson The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise 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 changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual — attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the... more » century. This new translation of the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest works.« less