The Belly of Paris (Oxford World's Classics) by Zola, Émile

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008-01-06. Paperback. Good.

New York, New York: Oxford / Ariston Music, 2007. Softcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback Standard used condition. Reading copy or better.

Oxford - New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. First Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5" x 7 3/4. 287 Pages. No defects noted to this very clean book with flawless interior text pages. In this book Florent Quenu is unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'etat in December 1851. He escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marche des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand program of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. Disgusted by a bourgeois society whose devotion to food is inseparable from its devotion to the Government, Florent attempts an insurrection. Les Halles, apocalyptic and destructive, play an active role in Emile Zola's picture of a world in which food and the injustice of society are inextricably linked. This book is the third of hxis famous series of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. It introduces the painter… Read More