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The Resource Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight, Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss

Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight, Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss

Label
Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight
Title
Au bonheur des dames
Title remainder
The ladies' delight
Statement of responsibility
Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss
Title variation
Ladies' delight
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
Summary
"Au Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvet and lace. Then Denise Baudu, a naive provincial girl, becomes an assistant at the store, and Mouret discovers that he in turn can also be enchanted." "With its vivid portrayal of greedy customers and gossiping staff, its lavish descriptions and sense of theatre, Au Bonheur des Dames is a rich and exciting novel. The eleventh in Zola's great cycle Les Rougon-Macquart, it is his comment on modern consumer society. In this sense it is, out of Zola's novels, 'surely the one that has most relevance for our time'."--BOOK JACKET
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Cataloging source
UKM
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1840-1902
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Zola, Emile
Index
no index present
Language note
Translated from the French edition, originally published France: s.n., 1883
Literary form
fiction
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Buss, Robin
Series statement
Penguin classics
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  • Department stores
  • Seduction
  • Women sales personnel
  • Department stores
  • Seduction
  • Women sales personnel
  • Paris (France)
  • Paris (France)
Target audience
adult
Label
Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight, Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss
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Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000023204600
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
xxxii, 428 p.
Isbn
9780140447835
Lccn
2002278397
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)47232994
Label
Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight, Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss
Link
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000023204600
Dimensions
20 cm.
Extent
xxxii, 428 p.
Isbn
9780140447835
Lccn
2002278397
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)47232994

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