The Belly of Paris

Émile Zola

Original title: The belly of Paris

earliest edition we have, 2002 Blackstone Audiobooks, 2002 audiobook

Oxford world's classics

In this novel the author chooses as his locale the newly built food markets of Paris. Into this extravagance of food - which Zola describes in set pieces that wet the tongue, excite the ear, and stir up the belly - he places his young hero, the half-starved Florent, who has just escaped imprisonment in Cayenne. Florent finds himself at odds with a world he now knows is unjust. Gradually he takes up with the local Soc...

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The belly of Paris edition · 2009 · Modern Library · 328 pages · 9780812974225
The belly of Paris = paperback · 2007 · Oxford University Press · 287 pages · 9780192806338
The Belly of Paris audiobook · 2002 · Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786116287

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