Oxford World's Classics The Ladies' Paradise, (Paperback)

from oataker

Denise, a 20 year old from the sticks come penniless to Paris with her two younger brothers hoping to live with her Uncle Baudu. But he cannot help her as he is being ruined by the Ladies Paradise department store opened up by Mouret. Lots of stuff about Woman being seduced by the riches on displ...

from Smiler69

The second book of Zola's Rougon-Macquart series deals with Aristide Rougon's vertiginous rise to wealth and prestige during the 1860s. Aristide, the son of Pierre Rougon and his wife Félicité was introduced in the first novel as a bumbling journalist intent on siding with the doomed cause of the...

from nessreader

A brilliant book about the retail industry. It's about daring schemes to cut prices to the bone, and how that means pressure to increase turnover so that a smaller percentage of profit on many sales outweighs a larger profit on few. And it's about how it feels to work in retail, the necessary sma...

from Poquette

The Kill is the second novel in Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle, which is essentially a family saga that follows three branches of the Rougon-Macquarts through the period of France's Second Empire beginning with the coup d'état of Napoleon III in 1852 and ending with collapse of the em...

from Cecrow

The Ladies' Paradise of the title is one of the world's earliest department stores, gathering a multitude of goods and services under one roof in the heart of Paris. Its size and cash flow exceeds all known bounds, beggaring the surrounding drab mom-and-pop establishments with its enormous, glitt...