L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, Fiction, Literary, Classics

ISBN-13: 9781603122900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 208 str.

Emile Zola

Opis

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. Half of Zola's novels were a set of twenty called Les Rougon-Macquart, set in France's Second Empire.