Ladies' Delight by Émile Zola
$15.00
Condition Used paperback with heavily rubbed and creased covers, worn edges and corners, spine wear, a handwritten price on the front cover, and heavily age-toned pages with visible spotting. Read full condition
Used paperback with heavily rubbed and creased covers, worn edges and corners, spine wear, a handwritten price on the front cover, and heavily age-toned pages with visible spotting.
The book pictured is the copy you’ll receive.
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About this book
Denise Baudu arrives in Paris and finds work in the expanding department store run by Octave Mouret. Zola follows the lives of its staff and customers as modern retail transforms the city, setting ambition, desire and consumer spectacle against the struggles of small shopkeepers. This is April Fitzlyon's English translation of Au Bonheur des Dames, the eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart sequence.
Condition: Fair. Used paperback with heavily rubbed and creased covers, worn edges and corners, spine wear, a handwritten price on the front cover, and heavily age-toned pages with visible spotting.
- Author: Émile Zola
- Translator: April Fitzlyon
- Publisher: Paul Elek Ltd.
- Publication: 1960
- Edition / printing: Bestseller Library paperback edition, 1960
- Format: Paperback
- Language: English
- Pagination: 448 pages
April Fitzlyon's translation was first published by John Calder in 1957; this copy is the 1960 Elek Bestseller Library paperback, not the 1957 hardback first edition. No ISBN appears in the supplied photographs. Only the supplied cover and copyright-page photographs have been inspected; internal completeness and annotations have not been checked.
Book details
- Title
- Ladies' Delight
- Authors
- Émile Zola
- Publisher
- Paul Elek Ltd.
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- Bestseller Library paperback edition, 1960
- Subjects
- FICTION; CLASSICS; FRENCH LITERATURE; TRANSLATED FICTION; EMILE ZOLA; APRIL FITZLYON
- Page count
- 448
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