Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille. Rougon-Macquart. Illustrated) (Paperback)

from Smiler69

Librairie Générale Française (1974), Mass Market Paperback, 510 pages (French Edition) Original publication date: 1882 I was rather amused to find that in the introduction to this cheap, badly printed paperback edition, Mr. D'Armand Lanoux, a writer who had received the Prix Goncourt, in what is ...

from sushitori

Interesting study of middle class life in 19th century Paris but the men were too obsessed with who they would sleep with next. Nice background on the development of apartment buildings as a new way of living for the bourgeoise.

from japaul22

In Pot Luck, Zola reveals the deceit of the Bourgeois as only Zola can. A young man, Octave, moves into a large boarding house, filled with middle class families and couples. There he finds seemingly respectable, moral, and well-off people, but as he spends more time there, he quickly finds the c...

from arubabookwoman

Having completed Pot Luck, I am now half-way through my Rougon-Macquart journey. In Pot Luck, Zola takes on the bourgeoisie, in a story revolving around Octave Mouret. Octave is the son of the Mourets whose downfall is chronicled in The Conquest of Plassans, and the brother of the priest whose do...