The Ladies' Paradise by Translated By April Fitzlyon
Recently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.
It's sex and shopping for 400 pulsating pages in Zola's gripping 1883 novel (recently adapted for television by the BBC)From the opening image of the great Parisian dress emporium, all gilded cherubs and lavish window displays of satins and silks, you are hooked. (...) Fireworks, passion, lust, heartbreak, class-conflict... all the crucial elements are in this rip-roaring classic. * The Daily Mail * Zola overwhelms us with an abundance of description that oscillates between fantastical lyricism and meticulous realism, with plenty of rather wry psychological analysis to hold the two poles together. -- Tim Parks I consider Zola's books among the very best of the present time. -- Vincent Van Gogh To enjoy Zola at his best, you have to read one of the great novels, in which a whole panorama emerges, as in the work of one of those highly realistic nineteenth-century painters. -- A.N. Wilson Perhaps the most famous novel about shopping is Emile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise... For Zola, the department store was a metaphor for the triumph of capitalism... but he also saw it as the place where women were duped and enslaved into the new habit of consumerism. * The Guardian * It's an excellent edition! -- P.D. Smith Nothing gets a crowd going like sex and shopping. Emile Zola was one of the first to describe this new consumerist link... * The Times *
Émile Zola (1840-1902) is the foremost representative of the Naturalist school, and is best remembered for Thérèse Raquin and his twenty-novel cycle, The Rougon Macquarts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847493132 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847493130 |
| Title | The Ladies' Paradise |
| Author | Emile Zola |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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