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L'Assommoir

L'Assommoir

by Émile Zola

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See the full L'Assommoir reading order for all books in the series.

About L'Assommoir

Zola's seventh Rougon-Macquart novel (1877) — the story of Gervaise Macquart, a Parisian laundress whose early industry and hope are destroyed by her husband Coupeau's alcoholism and the degrading environment of the working-class district La Goutte-d'Or. The most powerful nineteenth-century novel about addiction and urban poverty.

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