AU BONHEUR DES DAMES by Zola, Emile ISBN 0140447830
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[edit] AU BONHEUR DES DAMES
This title is one in Zola's 'Les Rougon-Macquart', a panorama of mid-19th century French life in 20 novels which studies the effects of the transmission of hereditary traits down through different generations of a family. This novel concerns the new social phenomenon of the department store.
Set in one of the new Paris department stores, this 'poem of modern activity' charts the mutual beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society. At the centre of the novel is Octave Mouret who rises through charm, drive and effort to become the director of this mighty shopping emporium. Mouret is a man who is aware of the power of his position and seeks to exploit the desire his luxuriantly-displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Zola captures in luxurious detail the phenomenon of the consumer society, obsessed with image, fashion and gratification, which is so similar to our own culture.
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[edit] Title
AU BONHEUR DES DAMES
[edit] Author
Zola, Emile
[edit] ISBN
0140447830
[edit] Published
26/10/2006
[edit] Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
[edit] Binding
paperback (B format)
[edit] Retail Price
8.99 (GBP)
[edit] Typical Price Online
8.09 (GBP)
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