TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - L'Assommoir AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Domestic fiction KW - Married women -- Fiction KW - Paris (France) -- Fiction KW - Working class women -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir; Release date is 2005-07-01; Cam Venezuela, Earle Beach, Eric Eldred, and the Distributed Online Proofing Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1877. The seventh installment in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series follows Gervaise Macquart, a washerwoman abandoned in Paris who struggles to build a life in the working-class districts. After marrying a roofer and opening her own laundry, Gervaise experiences fleeting success before circumstances spiral downward. Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris, this groundbreaking work explores alcoholism and poverty with unflinching realism, using authentic street language that shocked and captivated readers worldwide. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8558 ER -