by Émile Zola · Hachette Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782013949637
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«Au bonheur des dames» is Émile Zola's naturalist novel, Bibliocollège edition from Hachette Education in paperback (270 pages, in French).
Denise, a young Norman woman, arrives in Paris with her two brothers and finds work at Au bonheur des dames, Octave Mouret's great department store. The small shops in the neighbourhood are ruined by its competition, while Denise's life crosses paths with that of the ambitious owner. The novel portrays the transformation of commerce and of nineteenth-century Paris.
It belongs to the Les Rougon-Macquart series, of which it is the eleventh instalment; the novel was originally published in 1883.
Edition aimed at secondary school classrooms in France, with reading guides and analysis; recommended for French readers aged 10 and up.
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.
