L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

"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
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Most Recently Updated Dec 29, 2020
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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