02329cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500300014326400510017330000470022433600260027133700260029733800360032350000450035950000310040450800170043552012660045253400450171865300300176365300610179370000300185470000350188485600430191999900170196254686UtSlPG20260610134248.0mcr n260607r2017||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aZola, Émile,d1840-190210aPiping hot! (Pot-bouille) 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2017  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aSequel is: The ladies' paradise, #54687.  aRelease date is 2017-05-08  aDavid Widger  a"Piping Hot!" (Pot-bouille) by Émile Zola is a realistic novel written in the late 19th century. This work delves into the intricacies of middle-class life in Paris through the lens of various characters living in the same building. The novel primarily focuses on Octave Mouret, a young man freshly arrived in Paris, navigating his new environment filled with aspirations and interactions with diverse tenants of a bourgeois house.  The opening of the novel introduces us to Octave Mouret as he arrives in Paris, filled with dreams of success and a better life. He settles into a new residence and is promptly shown around by the architect Campardon, who's proud of the building and its respectable tenants. As Octave learns about his neighbors, including Madame Josserand and her daughters, and the various dynamics within the household, we see a vivid depiction of the middle-class lifestyle. The scene reveals a mixture of charm and underlying tensions among the residents, foreshadowing the satirical exploration of bourgeois life that Zola is known for. The narrative sets the stage for a deeper examination of the moralistic nature of the characters and their social interactions in the subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aParis (France) -- Fiction  aFrance -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction1 aMoore, George,d1852-19331 aBellenger, Georges,d1847-191840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54686  c95518d95518