by Émile Zola · Gallimard Editions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070409303
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«Au Bonheur des Dames» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by Gallimard in paperback (544 pages, in French).
Set in Paris during the Second Empire, it tells the story of Denise Baudu, a young provincial woman who arrives in the city while department stores transform commerce. The work shows the rise of the modern large store, the fascination it exerts over customers, and the human, professional and romantic conflicts it generates, with Octave Mouret, director of the establishment.
Eleventh novel in the «Les Rougon-Macquart» series, originally published in 1883. Folio classique edition with a preface by Jeanne Gaillard and edited by Henri Mitterand.
Suitable for students preparing the work in class and for readers interested in nineteenth-century French fiction.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
