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The Joy of Life (Rougon-macquart)
Émile Zola
The Joy of Life (Rougon-macquart)
Émile Zola
Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles (see The Fat and the Thin, aka The Belly of Paris), is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the death of her parents. There, Pauline - kind and open-minded - is confronted with a gout-plagued host, his avaricious wife, and their lazy son, a morbid hypochondriac, whom she is expected to marry. While the family takes advantage of Pauline, using up the inheritance her parents left to her, Pauline is gradually transformed into a dejected and resigned young woman. Death and accident soon hang over the small house on the Norman coast...
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 23 octobre 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781595690470 |
Éditeurs | Mondial |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 367 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
Contributeur | Andrew Moore |
Contributeur | Ernest Alfred Vizetelly |
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