L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

15 hours, 45 minutes first pub 1876 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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Brutal, gripping and heart wrenching, L'Assommoir (also known as The Drinking Den) chronicles the tragic downward spiral of Gervaise Macquart, a good-natured and hardworking laundress who slides into alcoholism and despair. After her lover abandon...

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