L'Assommoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199538683)

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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Author: ﾉmile Zola
ISBN-10: 0199538689
ISBN-13: 9780199538683
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2009
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d