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Release date: 4th October 2012
Published by: OUP Oxford; BBC tie-in edition
ISBN No: 978 0199675968
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.
Copyright: Amazon Synopsis
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