The Ladies' Paradise - Couverture souple

Zola, Émile; Ross, Kristin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520078675 ISBN 13 : 9780520078673

Editeur : University of California Press, 1991

Synopsis

Book by mile Zola

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Denise had walked from the Saint-L azare railway station, where a Cherbourg train had landed her and her two brothers, after a night passed on the hard seat of a third-class carriage. She was leading Pepe by the hand, and Jean was following her, all three fatigued after the journey, frightened and lost in this vast Paris, their eyes on every street name, asking at every corner the way to the Rue de la Michodiere, where their uncle Baudu lived. Buton arriving in the Place Gaillon, the j young girl stopped short, astonished. Oh I look there, Jean, said she; and they stood still, nestling close to one another, all dressed in black, wearing the old mourning bought at their fathers death. She, rather puny for her twenty years, was carrying a small parcel; on the other side, her little brother, five years old, was clinging to her arm ;while behind her, the big brother, a strapping youth of sixteen, was standing empty-handed. Well, said she, after a pause, that is a shop IT hey were at the corner of the Rue de la Michodiere and the Rue Neuve-S aint-A ugustin, in front of a drapers shop, hich displayed a wealth of colour in the soft October light. JE ight oclock was striking at the church of Saint-R och; not many people were about, only a few clerks on their way to business, and housewives doing their morning shopping. Before the door, two shopmen, mounted on a step-ladder, were hanging up some woollen goods, whilst in a window in the Rue Neuve-S aint-A ugustin another young man, kneeling with his back to the pavement, was delicately plaiting a piece of blue silkj In the shop, where there were as yet no customers, there was a buzz as of a swarm of bees at work. By Jove! said Jean, this beats Valognes. Yours wasnt sucha fine shop. Denise shook her head.
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Biographie de l'auteur :

Émile François Zola (1840-1902) was a journalist, a novelist, a playwright, and a political activist. He was one of the most influential French novelists of the 19th century and the founder of the literary and theatrical school of naturalism. Zola was a major figure in the political liberalization of France. Émile Zola’s works include novels, dramas, poetry, and criticism, among which is his famous Rougon-Macquart (1871-1893), a cycle of twenty novels which depict various aspects of life and society, such as "L’Assommoir" (1877), the seventh novel of the series, about the suffering of the Parisian working-class; "Nana" (1880), the ninth installment, which deals with prostitution; "Pot-Bouille" (1882), the tenth novel, and Zola’s most sarcastic satire, which describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris; and "Germinal" (1885), the thirteenth novel in the series, which depicts the mining industry and is considered by some as one of his masterpieces. "The Ladies Paradise," originally "Au Bonheur des Dames," one of his most relevant works, was the eleventh novel of the cycle. Zola’s open letter to French president Félix Faure, under the headline J’Accuse...!, published on the front page of the newspaper L’Aurore on January 13, 1898, charging various French officials with a “terrible miscarriage of justice,” reopened the case of the Jewish army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been sentenced to Devil’s Island. For that, Zola was himself sentenced to a year in prison but fled to England, returning one year later after Dreyfus’ name had been cleared. Dreyfus was eventually reinstated as an officer and publicly decorated with the Legion of Honor.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0520078675
• ISBN 13: 9780520078673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420