Zola, Émile,  1840-1902 <br/><br/>
L'Assommoir 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Assommoir  Release date is 2006-04-27 
<br/><br/>John Bickers, Dagny and David Widger  John Bickers, Dagny and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1877. The seventh installment in Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, it follows Gervaise Macquart, a washerwoman in working-class Paris, as she struggles to build a life after being abandoned by her lover. What begins with hope and hard-won success gradually unravels through injury, idleness, and addiction. Zola's unflinching portrayal of alcoholism and poverty shocked nineteenth-century readers with its raw realism and authentic street language, sparking both acclaim and controversy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Domestic fiction Married women -- Fiction Paris (France) -- Fiction Working class women -- Fiction 
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