L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics)
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Book 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. 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.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics)
L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics),Emile Zola,Robert Lethbridge,Margaret Mauldon,Oxford University Press, USA,019283813X,Classics,Domestic fiction,Fiction,Language,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Married women,Paris (France),Working class women,19th century fiction,Fiction / Literary,French,Literature/English | World Literature | France,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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