Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight

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Label

Au bonheur des dames : The ladies' delight

Title remainder

The ladies' delight

Statement of responsibility

Emile Zola ; translated and edited by Robin Buss

Title variation

Ladies' delight

Creator

• Zola, Emile, 1840-1902

Contributor

• Buss, Robin

Subject

• Department stores -- Fiction
• Department stores -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Paris (France) -- Fiction
• Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Seduction -- Fiction
• Women sales personnel -- Fiction
• Women sales personnel -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Seduction -- France | Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

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

Member of

• Au bonheur des dames

Cataloging source

UKM

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the French edition, originally published France: s.n., 1883

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Penguin classics

Target audience

adult