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L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics
Emile Zola
L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics
Emile Zola
Emile Zola was a French novelist, part of the literary school of Naturalism, and a force in the political liberalization of France. Half of Zola's novels were a set of twenty called Les Rougon-Macquart, set in France's Second Empire. It traces two branches of a single family. Said Zola, "I want to portray, at the outset of a century of liberty and truth, a family that cannot restrain itself in its rush to possess all the good things that progress is making available and is derailed by its own momentum, the fatal convulsions that accompany the birth of a new world."
L'Assomir tells the story of Gervaise Macquart. In Paris working as a laundress, she is abandoned with her young sons by her lover, Lantir. She marries a roofing engineer named Coupeau, saves enough money to open her own laundry and bears a daughter named Nana. But a fall from a roof badly injures Coupeau, and he takes to drink during his recovery. Lantier returns, Gervais suffers reverses including losing her shop, and joins Coupeau in a downward spiral of drink.
208 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781603127882 |
Publishers | Aegypan |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 22 mm · 464 g |
Language | English |
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