L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
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"L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1877. The seventh volume in the Rougon-Macquart series, it follows Gervaise Macquart, a hardworking laundress in working-class Paris who dreams of opening her own shop. After being abandoned by her lover and marrying a roofer named Coupeau, she builds a modest success through determination. But a devastating accident sets off a spiral of misfortune, as alcohol, returning ghosts from the past, and mounting
debts threaten to destroy everything she has worked for. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | L'Assommoir |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir |
| Credits | Produced by Carlo Traverso, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Images courtesy of gallica.bnf.fr |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Domestic fiction |
| Subject | Married women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Working class women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Working class -- France -- Paris -- Fiction |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 6497 |
| Release Date | Sep 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 605 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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