L' Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator text utu 2004 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1877. The seventh volume in the Rougon-Macquart series, it follows Gervaise Macquart, a hardworking laundress in working-class Paris who dreams of opening her own shop. After being abandoned by her lover and marrying a roofer named Coupeau, she builds a modest success through determination. But a devastating accident sets off a spiral of misfortune, as alcohol, returning ghosts from the past, and mounting debts threaten to destroy everything she has worked for. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir Release date is 2004-09-01 Produced by Carlo Traverso, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Images courtesy of http://gallica.bnf.fr Original publication data not identified Domestic fiction Married women -- Fiction Paris (France) -- Fiction Working class women -- Fiction Working class -- France -- Paris -- Fiction Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6497 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6497 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133153.0 6497