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- Author: Ėmile Zola
- Publisher: Books on Demand
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 583
- ISBN: 9783751924535
- ISBN-10: 3751924531
- ISBN-13: 9783751924535
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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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. 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.
- Author: Ėmile Zola
- Publisher: Books on Demand
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 583
- ISBN: 9783751924535
- ISBN-10: 3751924531
- ISBN-13: 9783751924535
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
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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