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  The Joy of Life (Zest for Life. Rougon-Macquart) (Paperback) By (author) Emile Zola, Preface by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Alfred, Edited by Andrew Moore

  

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  Short Description for The Joy of Life (Zest for Life. Rougon-Macquart)Pauline Quenu, the daughter of shopkeepers in the Parisian business district Les Halles, is taken in by relatives on the coast of Normandy following the death of her parents. There, she is confronted with a gout-plagued host, his avaricious wife, and their lazy son, a morbid hypochondriac, whom she is expected to marry.
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  • Publisher: Mondial
  • Published: 23 October 2006
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Classics | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9781595690470 ISBN 10: 1595690476
  • Sales rank: 173,377

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Full description for The Joy of Life (Zest for Life. Rougon-Macquart)

• 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...