# L'Assommoir

By Émile Zola.

"L'Assommoir" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1877. The seventh volume in the Rougon-Macquart series, it follows Gervaise Macquart, a hardworking laundress in working-class Paris who dreams of opening her own shop. After being abandoned by her lover and marrying a roofer named Coupeau, she builds a modest success through determination. But a devastating accident sets off a spiral of misfortune, as alcohol, returning ghosts from the past, and mounting debts threaten to destroy everything she has worked for. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: Domestic fiction; Married women -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Fiction; Working class women -- Fiction; Working class -- France -- Paris -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- Social conditions -- Fiction

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