The Ladies' Paradise (BBC tie-in)

Émile Zola
Brian Nelson

Oxford World's Classics

480 pages | 196x129mm

978-0-19-967596-8 | Paperback | 04 October 2012

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Price: £8.99

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This sparkling translation of Zola's novel centred on the life of a great department store has been adapted for television as The Paradise.
The eleventh book in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart cycle, it has a lively cast of characters and is one of the greatest novels of the modern city.
The novel captures the spirit of the great rise in consumerism at the end of the nineteenth century, and the development of marketing techniques now used by retailers the world over.
A great story of rivalry and ambition, in which the social world of the department store is a microcosm of society at large.

The Ladies' Paradise is a compelling story of ambition and love set against the backdrop of the spectacular rise of the department store in 1860s Paris. Octave Mouret is a business genius who transforms a modest draper's shop into a hugely successful retail enterprise, masterfully exploiting the desires of his female customers and ruining small competitors along the way. Through the eyes of trainee salesgirl Denise we see the inner workings of the store and the relations and intrigues among the staff, human dramas played out alongside the relentless pursuit of commercial supremacy.

Now adapted for BBC Television and given a British setting in The Paradise, Zola's novel is a masterly portrayal of life in the bustling, gossipy world of the best department store in town.
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Readership: Readers of classic fiction, viewers of the TV series The Paradise which is based on the novel, readers of other Zola novels.

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