TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - L'Assommoir AV - PQ PY - 2006/// 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 2006-04-27; John Bickers, Dagny and David Widger; 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, 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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8600 ER -