books.google.co.uk - The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late nineteenth-century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family: it is emblematic of changes in consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_ladies_paradise.html?id=iiyXsyHqh8MC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe ladies' paradise
