The Ladies' Paradise

by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Translator), Emile Zola

Overview

The Ladies' Paradise

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781981827893
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/22/2017
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French writer. He was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902. He was born in Paris and the family moved to Aix-en-Provence when he was three years old. Four years later, in 1847, his father died, leaving his mother on a meager pension. In 1858, the Zolas moved to Paris, where Émile's childhood friend Paul Cézanne soon joined him. Zola started to write in the romantic style. Before his breakthrough as a writer, Zola worked as a clerk in a shipping firm and then in the sales department for a publisher (Hachette). He also wrote literary reviews for newspapers.
His first major novel was Thérèse Raquin.

Editorial Reviews

It's sex and shopping for 400 pulsating pages in Zola’s gripping 1883 novel (recently adapted for television by the BBC). From the opening image of the great Parisian dress emporium, all gilded cherubs and lavish window displays of satins and silks, you are hooked. (...) Fireworks, passion, lust, heartbreak, class-conflict . . . all the crucial elements are in this rip-roaring classic.” - The Daily Mail

“Zola overwhelms us with an abundance of description that oscillates between fantastical lyricism and meticulous realism, with plenty of rather wry psychological analysis to hold the two poles together.” - Tim Parks

“I consider Zola’s books among the very best of the present time.” - Vincent Van Gogh

“To enjoy Zola at his best, you have to read one of the great novels, in which a whole panorama emerges, as in the work of one of those highly realistic nineteenth-century painters.” - A.N. Wilson

“Perhaps the most famous novel about shopping is Émile Zola’s The Ladies’ Paradise . . . For Zola, the department store was a metaphor for the triumph of capitalism . . . but he also saw it as the place where women were duped and enslaved into the new habit of consumerism.” - The Guardian

“It's an excellent edition!” - P.D. Smith

“Nothing gets a crowd going like sex and shopping. Émile Zola was one of the first to describe this new consumerist link . . .” - The Time

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