L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) by Émile Zola

Les Rougon-Macquart #7

L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop)

Émile Zola with Robin Buss (Translator)

480 pages paperback 1876

140 editions

fiction classics literary dark emotional sad slow-paced
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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...

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