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The Ladies' Delight (Hardcover)
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The Ladies' Delight (Hardcover)
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The Ladies' Delight (1883) is a novel by French author Emile Zola.
The eleventh of twenty volumes of Zola's monumental Les
Rougon-Macquart series is an epic story of family, politics, class,
and history that traces the disparate paths of several French
citizens raised by the same mother. Spanning the entirety of the
French Second Empire, Zola provides a sweeping portrait of change
that refuses to shy away from controversy and truth as it gets to
the heart of heredity and human nature. At the age of twenty,
Denise Baudu moves to Paris with her brothers and finds work at "Au
Bonheur des Dames," a new department store owned by eccentric
entrepreneur Octave Mouret. There, she grows accustomed to 13-hour
days, inferior food and housing, and the constant grind of
thankless labor. Despite her circumstances, she soon finds herself
attracted to Mouret, a notorious womanizer whose exploitative
business practices have alienated him from employees and local
businesspeople. Mouret's ambition and innovation have led him to
corner the market on textiles, womenswear, furniture, and household
goods, infuriating his competitors and driving smaller shops into
bankruptcy. Until Denise, he has avoided tying himself down to
another, intent on building a fortune for himself without the
interference of family. Innocent at first, she soon learns how to
manipulate Octave to do her bidding. The Ladies' Delight is a story
of family and fate, a thrilling and detailed novel that continues a
series rich enough for its author to explore in twenty total
volumes. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Emile Zola's The Ladies'
Delight is a classic work of French literature reimagined for
modern readers.
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