{"product_id":"2026200008390-secondhand-restless-house","title":"Restless House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good, slight tanning consistent with age. Moisture stain on top of block but does not extend internally. Markings: No markings. Binding: Firm and intact. No stickers or library stamps visible. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRestless House is a powerful work of literary naturalism, translated from the French by Percy Pinkerton and introduced by the distinguished novelist Angus Wilson. Originally published as Pot-Bouille in 1882, this novel chronicles the hypocritical bourgeois society of Paris through the eyes of the ambitious young Octave Mouret, as he navigates the seemingly respectable but deeply corrupt world of a fashionable Parisian apartment block. Zola presents a scathing, unsparing portrait of middle-class morality — its petty adulteries, social pretensions, and simmering class tensions — with the unflinching precision that defines the Rougon-Macquart cycle. Sharp, satirical, and darkly comic in tone, the narrative illustrates how private vice flourishes behind the facade of bourgeois respectability, cementing Zola's reputation as one of the great architects of the realist novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956327690459,"sku":"2026200008390-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/8df0a2c3-de9a-4afc-9f38-cce5bda71aa1.png?v=1783499746","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008390-secondhand-restless-house","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}