Restless House

(Reprint) This edition was 1st published in a limited edition of 310 copies by the Lutetian Society 1895. Light toning, else appears as unread, unblemished contents in near very good blue/green cloth covered boards with DJ displaying moderate surface/edge wear, as shown with repaired closed and open tears.

One of Zola's most biting novels, a translation of Pot-Bouille. introduction by Angus Wilson, and illustrated by Philip Gough, Translated from the French. "A savagely realistic picture of 19th Century Paris." … the novel's worth has been obscured by the fame of "Nana", "restless House" (pot bouille) in one of zola's greater works, to be discovered with pleasure by the reader.

The author's novel of the powerful French middle class of the 19th Century, the petty jealousies and ambitions of the men, the dissatisfactions of their dissolute and idle women, the clandestine loves and shoddy pleasures into which all flee from boredom, the book caused a storm of protest upon publication and influential forces conspired to repress the book

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