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Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille) (Oxford World's Classics)
Pot Luck - Pot-Bouille - Oxford World's Classics Author:Emile Zola, Brian Nelson (Translator) Pot Luck, Zola's most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of betrayals and depicts a veritable 'melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the r... more »obustness of Zola's language and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.« less