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423 pages • first pub 1876 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 0140442316
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books/Penguin Classics
Publication date: Not specified
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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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423 pages • first pub 1876 (editions) user-added
ISBN/UID: 0140442316
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books/Penguin Classics
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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...