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The Ladies' Paradise: A Novel
The Ladies' Paradise: A Novel
The Ladies' Paradise: A Novel
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The Ladies' Paradise is the story of Denise Baudu, a young, lowly woman from Valognes. She arrives in Paris with her younger brothers and starts working as a saleswoman at the titular department store. It is an account of the store's inner workings from Denise's perspective, including 13-hour workdays, the low-quality food, and the basic accommodations for the female staff. Several conflicts in the novel arise from each employee's struggle for progress and the petty disputes and gossip among the staff. French writer Emilie Zola has depicted the women as modern in the novel. The department store is presented as a place where female customers can live out their fantasies and impulses. For female employees, it offers the possibility of financial freedom. There are several characters with their own story. Their stories will fill the readers with sympathy, anger, sorrow, comfort, and many different emotions as they move forward with this story.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSharp Ink
Release dateMay 20, 2021
ISBN9788028233426
The Ladies' Paradise: A Novel
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Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright. Born in Paris to a French mother and Italian father, Zola was raised in Aix-en-Provence. At 18, Zola moved back to Paris, where he befriended Paul Cézanne and began his writing career. During this early period, Zola worked as a clerk for a publisher while writing literary and art reviews as well as political journalism for local newspapers. Following the success of his novel Thérèse Raquin (1867), Zola began a series of twenty novels known as Les Rougon-Macquart, a sprawling collection following the fates of a single family living under the Second Empire of Napoleon III. Zola’s work earned him a reputation as a leading figure in literary naturalism, a style noted for its rejection of Romanticism in favor of detachment, rationalism, and social commentary. Following the infamous Dreyfus affair of 1894, in which a French-Jewish artillery officer was falsely convicted of spying for the German Embassy, Zola wrote a scathing open letter to French President Félix Faure accusing the government and military of antisemitism and obstruction of justice. Having sacrificed his reputation as a writer and intellectual, Zola helped reverse public opinion on the affair, placing pressure on the government that led to Dreyfus’ full exoneration in 1906. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902, Zola is considered one of the most influential and talented writers in French history.

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