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Pot Luck (Pot-Bouille)

By Nelson , Emile , Brian;Zola

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press USA - OSO
ISBN
9780199538706, 9780192593191, 0192593196
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2635016 bytes)
Series
Oxford World's Classics Series
Pages
417 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Zola's most acerbic social satire, Pot Luck is set in a newly constructed block of flats in the Rue de Choiseul, Paris. Although it seems a place of prosperity and harmony, it is riddled with snobbery and hypocrisy. Systematically exposing the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola reveals a multitude of adulteries and betrayals, and depicts a veritable `melting pot' of moral and sexual degeneracy. This new translation captures the directness androbustness of Zola's language, and restores the omissions of earlier abridged versions.

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