The ladies' paradise
by Émile Zola
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Translated into English titled "The Ladies Paradise". BBC did a series on Masterpiece Theater.The novel tells the story of Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman who comes to Paris with her younger brothers and begins working as a saleswoman at the department store Au Bonheur des Dames. You read about the inner workings of the store from the employees' perspective, including the 13-hour workdays, and the bare lodgings for the female staff. Many of the conflicts in the novel spring from each employee's struggle for advancement and the malicious infighting and gossip among the staff.Denise's story is played against the career of Octave Mouret, the owner of Au Bonheur des Dames, whose retail innovations and store expansions threaten the existence of all the neighborhood shops. There's also a love story.
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Department stores, Fiction, French fiction, Literature, Seduction, Translations into Russian, Women sales personnel, Sales personnel, History, Social conditions, Littérature française, Étude et enseignement, Au bonheur des dames (Zola, Émile), Fiction, historical, Paris (france), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, generalShowing 9 featured editions. View all 55 editions?
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Au bonheur des dames : Commentaires du roman
April 18, 2002, Hatier
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Au Bonheur DES Dames
November 12, 1999, Editions Flammarion
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Au Bonheur Des Dames (World Classics)
January 1999, Distribooks
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The Ladies' Paradise
December 10, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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Au Bonheur Des Dames
January 1, 1980, Livre de Poche
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Eleventh book in the author's Rougon-Macquart cycle.
"Reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1998"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxvii).
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