by Émile Zola · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010203176
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«Au Bonheur des Dames» is the novel by Émile Zola, published by Hachette in paperback (91 pages, in French).
Denise Baudu arrives in Paris with her younger brothers and begins working as a shop assistant at Au Bonheur des Dames, a large department store. The novel shows the daily life of the employees, their long working hours, the rivalries for promotion and the intrigues among the staff, while the director Octave Mouret expands the business and threatens the traditional shops of the neighbourhood.
It is the eleventh instalment of the Les Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola. This edition is part of the Lecture Facile Grandes Oeuvres collection, level 3.
Suitable for students of French as a foreign language (FLE) who want to approach the French classics.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
