{"product_id":"9781420942354","title":"The Ladies' Paradise","description":"One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was Émile Zola (1840-1902). In 1871 Zola began to his most notable series of novels, the \"Rougon-Macquart Novels,\" that relate the history of a fictional family under the Second Empire. As a strict naturalist, Zola was greatly concerned with science, especially the problems of evolution and heredity vs. environment. However, unlike Honoré de Balzac, whose works examined a wider scope of society, Zola focused on the evolution of one, single family. \"The Ladies' Paradise\" is the eleventh novel in this series, and begins exactly where \"Pot-Bouille\" left off. Octave Mouret has married and now owns a department store where twenty year old Denise Baudu, who has come to Paris with her brothers, takes a job as a saleswoman. The novel reflects symbolically on capitalism, the modern city, changes in consumer culture, the bourgeois family and sexual attitudes.","brand":"Neeland Media LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127706075376,"sku":"9781420942354","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781420942354_p0.jpg?v=1763730018","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781420942354","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}