Pot-Bouille by Émile Zola

"Pot-Bouille" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1882, the tenth in the Rougon-Macquart series. Octave Mouret arrives in Paris and settles into a respectable bourgeois apartment building, seeking a mistress to advance his social position. Behind the facade of propriety, he discovers the building's inhabitants engage in adultery, arranged marriages, inheritance disputes, and child abandonment. Through biting irony, Zola exposes the hypocrisy and moral corruption lurking beneath the veneer of Parisian respectability. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
Title Pot-Bouille
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-Bouille fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-Bouille
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Paris (France) -- Fiction
Subject France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction
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EBook-No. 8907
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Most Recently Updated May 31, 2013
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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