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L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics) by Émile Zola is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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SUMMARY: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. But her husband soon squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, a local drinking spot, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor.. L'Assommoir was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. This new translation captures not only the brutality but the pathos of its characters' lives.

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Author

Émile Zola

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192838131

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.06 / 5 (85 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14