Project Gutenberg 2017-05-08 Public domain in the USA. 361 Zola, Émile 1840 1902 Zola, Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola, Emile Moore, George 1852 1933 Moore, George Augustus Rhone, Lady Bellenger, Georges 1847 1918 Piping hot! (Pot-bouille) : $b a realistic novel Sequel is: The ladies' paradise, #54687. David Widger "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.) Reading ease score: 80.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Paris (France) -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Novels Category: French Literature 862277 2025-09-22T04:00:21.777655 text/html 869200 2024-10-23T02:04:16 text/html 4055982 2025-09-22T04:00:31.249132 application/epub+zip 4055934 2025-09-22T04:00:23.368168 application/epub+zip 417182 2025-09-22T04:00:22.314188 application/epub+zip 4273650 2025-09-22T04:00:37.409090 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4247288 2025-09-22T04:00:30.279179 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 611282 2022-09-24T22:36:32.035607 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 822543 2025-09-22T04:00:20.825664 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 802708 2024-10-23T02:04:15 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18191 2025-09-22T04:00:37.563089 application/rdf+xml 10039 2025-09-22T04:00:22.458173 image/jpeg 2286 2025-09-22T04:00:22.380172 image/jpeg 12460176 2025-09-22T04:00:21.948656 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia fr.wikipedia