{"product_id":"ladies-paradise-book-emile-zola-9781420940534","title":"The Ladies' Paradise","description":"One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was  mile Zola (1840-1902). In 1871 Zola began to his most notable series of novels, the Rougon-Macquart Novels, that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However, unlike Honor  de Balzac, whose works examined a wider scope of society, Zola focused on the evolution of one, single family. The Ladies' Paradise is the eleventh novel in this series, and begins exactly where Pot-Bouille left off. Octave Mouret has married and now owns a department store where twenty year old Denise Baudu, who has come to Paris with her brothers, takes a job as a saleswoman. The novel reflects symbolically on capitalism, the modern city, changes in consumer culture, the bourgeois family and sexual attitudes.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50106952188177,"sku":"CIN1420940538G","price":7.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51985997431057,"sku":"GOR005113083","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52470800351505,"sku":"CIN1420940538VG","price":19.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1420940538.jpg?v=1750714239","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ladies-paradise-book-emile-zola-9781420940534","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}