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L'Assommoir: or, The Drinking Den / The Dram Shop

L'Assommoir: or, The Drinking Den / The Dram Shop

Zola, Emile

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1546310681
ISBN13: 9781546310686
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 25 2017
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.37 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor... L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives.

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