L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
by Émile Zola
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- Running time
- 17 h 6 min
- Language
- English
- Translated by
- Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
About this recording
Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the roofer Coupeau, and has a daughter, nicknamed Nana. She opens her own laundry; then everything goes downhill, as both Gervaise and Coupeau succumb to alcoholism. - Summary by Mark Leder
