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Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband, Camille, but are subsequently haunted by visions of the dead man and prevented from enjoying the fruits of their crime.
2) Germinal
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English
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'Germinal' is the compelling portrait of life in a mining community. Zola examines the problems of industrial strife and traces the growing influence of socialism and anarchism.
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital.
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Oxford University Press
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English
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'The Ladies' Paradise' recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late 19th-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, & of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture & the changes in sexual attitudes & class relations taking place at the end of the century.
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