TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - L'Assommoir AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Domestic fiction KW - Married women -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- Fiction KW - Working class women -- Fiction KW - Working class -- France -- Paris -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- Fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6497 ER -