Assommoir

Name: Assommoir
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ISBN: 9780199538683

ISBN-10: 0199538689

ISBN-13: 9780199538683

Edition: 2009

Authors: ï¿½mile Zola, Margaret Mauldon, Robert Lethbridge

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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. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, the local drinking shop, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor. L'Assommoir is the most finely crafted of Zola's novels, and this new translation captures not only the brutality but also the pathos of its characters' lives.…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 7.70" wide x 5.10" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English