The Assommoir by Émile Zola

312 pages first pub 1876 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commerc...

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