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Paperback. Recounts the frenzied transformations that made late nineteenth-century Paris the fashion capital of the world. This novel includes a capitalist hero, Octave Mouret, who creates a giant department store that devours the dusty, outmoded boutiques surrounding it. Num Pages: 383 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520078673
- ISBN
- 9780520078673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.65
€ 35.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. Contains an Introduction, suggestions for further reading, a note on the translation, and an appendix on Zola's notes on Anzin. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 544 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846264
- ISBN
- 9781603846264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.71
€ 15.99
€ 12.71
Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Good copy with light shelf wear. Large cut to the edge of cover. Ex-Libris with stamps, remains good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0006453
- ISBN
- 9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the Theatre des Varietes. She soon rises from the streets to set the city alight as the most famous high-class prostitute of her day. Nana's hedonistic appetite for luxury and decadent pleasures knows no bounds - until, eventually, it consumes her. Translator(s): Holden, George. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 342. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0007511
- ISBN
- 9780140442632
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Recently adapted for BBC Television, The Ladies' Paradise evokes the giddy pace of Paris's transition into a modern city and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Translator(s): Fitzlyon, April. Num Pages: 453 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 199 x 28. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 453
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847493132
- ISBN
- 9781847493132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. A fascinating study in sexual psychology and sexual politics, the novel focuses on Helene Grandjean, a widow, and her shifting emotional states. This is the eighth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years. Editor(s): Nelson, Brian. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; FC; FYT. Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198728641
- ISBN
- 9780198728641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Emile Zola's own stage adaptation of his taut, psychological thriller. An intense story of adultery, murder and revenge, streaked with social satire. Translator(s): Broughton, P. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780948230134
- ISBN
- 9780948230134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.28
€ 19.28
Paperback. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first in Zola's famous Rougon-Macquart series of novels. Not only the inaugural novel, it is the series' founding text, establishing its genealogical basis. The family's greed and rapacity mirrors the diseased society in which it flourishes. This lively new translation is accompanied by introduction and notes. Translator(s): Nelson, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199560998
- ISBN
- 9780199560998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Nelson, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199538706
- ISBN
- 9780199538706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.20
€ 13.99
€ 13.20
Paperback. Editor(s): Pearson, Roger. Translator(s): Walton, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536917
- ISBN
- 9780199536917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Translator(s): Nelson, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536900
- ISBN
- 9780199536900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. A depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. Translator(s): Pearson, Roger. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447422
- ISBN
- 9780140447422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on path to a decent, respectable life at last. Editor(s): Buss, Robin. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449549
- ISBN
- 9780140449549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. The Ladies' Delight is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He has used charm and drive to become director of this mighty emporium, unscrupulously exploiting his young female staff and seducing his lady customers with luxurious displays of shimmering silks, satins, velvets and lace. Editor(s): Buss, Robin. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 464 pages, chronology, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Addison Wesley
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447835
- ISBN
- 9780140447835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. La Debacle is the penultimate novel in Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle. A stirring account of profound friendship between two soldiers from opposite ends of the class divide during the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. Editor(s): Lethbridge, Robert. Translator(s): Dorday, Elinor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198801894
- ISBN
- 9780198801894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Translator(s): Rothwell, Andrew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536856
- ISBN
- 9780199536856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. An ambitious and unscrupulous priest arrives in the provincial town of Plassans, intent on conquering its political and social life. His arrival has profound consequences for the Mouret family, whose lives are turned upside down. This is the fourth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, and the first modern translation for more than fifty years. Translator(s): Constantine, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199664788
- ISBN
- 9780199664788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher's shop on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. Therese Raquin caused a scandal when it appeared in 1867 and borught its twenty-seven-year-old author a notoriety that followed him throughout his life. Editor(s): Buss, Robin. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449440
- ISBN
- 9780140449440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Florent Quenu returns to Paris after being unjustly imprisoned and finds the city utterly changed. The great new food market, Les Halles, has been built, and food dominates the political and social life of the capital. The third in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, The Belly of Paris appears in a vibrant new translation. Translator(s): Nelson, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555840
- ISBN
- 9780199555840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Zola's novel of peasant life describes the disintegration of the Fouan family when Papa Fouan decides to divide his land between his three children. Greed and violence feed a bitter struggle for supremacy. This new translation captures the novel's blend of brutality and lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural world. Translator(s): Rose, Julie. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199677870
- ISBN
- 9780199677870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.37
€ 16.99
€ 13.37