English
December 24, 2013
ASIN: B00HIALFI6
MP3@64 kbps
16 hrs 44 mins
Narrator: Lee Ann Howlett
Genre: World Classics

The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames), now a TV series called The Paradise based on this classic novel, recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century.

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