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L'Assommoir, published as a serial in 1876, and in book form in 1877, is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel — a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris — was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's ...
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Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire. L'Assommoir est un roman d' Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La République des Lettres 1, avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez l'éditeur Georges Charpentier.
4.08. 16,893 ratings928 reviews. 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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Jul 27, 2003 · The Project Gutenberg eBook of L’assommoir, by Émile Zola This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
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Complete summary of Émile Zola's L' Assommoir. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of L' Assommoir.
Summary. To consider Zola's novel about a washerwoman, Gervaise Macquart, who falls on hard times, takes to drink and dies in abject poverty, a landmark of world literature may seem at first to be an extravagant claim, requiring at least some preliminary justification.
