The Assommoir (L'Assommoir) by Émile Zola

The Assommoir (L'Assommoir)

Les Rougon-Macquart #7

Émile Zola

570 pages first pub 1876 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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The novel is principally the story of Gervaise Macquart, who is featured briefly in the first novel in the series, La Fortune des Rougon, running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry in one...

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