L'Assommoir by Émile Zola, Leonard Tancock

423 pages first pub 1876 (editions) user-added

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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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...

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