by Émile Zola
Only Zola is able to create a masterpiece despite a flat, one-dimensional, saint-like main character and a dull ending.Capitalism doesn't seem to have come a long way in the past 100 or so years and humanity doesn't either.
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I imagine a bewildered Emile Zola wandering into the crowds populating that new phenomenon that took Paris merchandising in the 19th century by storm - mass production and the birth of the superstore. He enters through the widely opened arms of polished French doors, having to blink tearily at the b...
One of Zola's better novels. Surprisingly, it has a happy(ish) ending, which, although not normal for Zola, works well. It concerns consumerism and is about the first real department store in Paris. The store exploits its workers, although the grimness of Germinal, is not there. In some ways it ...
bookshelves: published-1883, autumn-2010, france, play-dramatisation, classic Recommended for: Classic serial Radio 4 listeners Read from September 19 to 27, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** wiki - the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical ...
“But he felt stronger at Henriette’s, knowing how the possession of a shared mistress brings men together and softens their hearts. That the two of them should be there, wrapped in her beloved scent, having her at hand, ready to persuade them with a smile, seemed to him a guarantee of success.” Oh b...
wiki - the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. It was first serialized in the periodical Gil Blas and published in novel form by Charpentier in 1883.NARRATOR ... David Hargreaves DENISE ... Georgia King MOURET ... Lee Williams BOURDONCLE ... Conrad Nelson BAUDU ... Nicholas B...
I loved this a whole lot more than I thought I would - delightful
I read an older public domain translation available through Google books. This is a somewhat lighter Zola novel centering around the owner, employees and shoppers at Paris' first large department store, as well as the subsequent gentrification of the neighborhood and the smaller long-established bus...
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