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The Belly of Paris

The Belly of Paris

Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
Davidson, Frederick
Zola, Émile

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Series: Rougon-Macquart Cycle, Book 3

Classic Fiction

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ISBN10: 1470817195
ISBN13: 9781470817190
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: Oct 20 2012
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.50 Width: 5.30 Depth: 5.80
Language: English

Although it is little known in this country, The Belly of Paris is considered one of Émile Zola's best novels. Set in the newly built food markets of Paris, it is a story of wealth and poverty set against a sumptuous banquet of food and commerce.

Having just escaped from prison after being wrongfully accused, young Florent arrives at Paris' food market, Les Halles, half starved, surrounded by all he can't have, and indignant at his world, which he now knows to be unjust. He finds that the city's working classes have been displaced to make way for bigger streets and bourgeois living quarters, so he settles in with his brother's family. Gradually, he takes up with the local socialists, who are more at home in bars than on the revolutionary streets. Slowly, the ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor drags the city to the breaking point.

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