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The Ladies' Paradise (The World's Classics)
The Ladies' Paradise - The World's Classics
Author: Emile Zola, Brian Nelson
The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual — attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780192831804
ISBN-10: 0192831801
Publication Date: 12/21/1995
Pages: 480
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3.8 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
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Interesting as I was a shop girl myself for a little while, although no grandious love affair rescued me from the drudgery.


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