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050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aZola, Émile,
_d1840-1902
245 1 0 _aPiping hot! (Pot-bouille)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aSequel is: The ladies' paradise, #54687.
500 _aRelease date is 2017-05-08
508 _aDavid Widger
520 _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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aParis (France) -- Fiction
653 _aFrance -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction
700 1 _aMoore, George,
_d1852-1933
700 1 _aBellenger, Georges,
_d1847-1918
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54686
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